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Pro-life Activist Targeted in FBI Raid
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Targeted for defending life: The Houck family endured an armed raid of their home by FBI agents in September, in a case that a municipal court had already thrown out.

Pro-life Activist Targeted in FBI Raid

Biden’s Department of Justice threatens a veteran pro-lifer and devoted husband and father with 11 years in federal prison in a case that a Pennsylvania court threw out. ...
Rebecca Terrell
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Mark Houck, a Catholic pro-life author and father of seven, faces felony charges after a Department of Justice team raided his home September 23 for allegedly injuring a man outside a Philadelphia abortion clinic nearly a year ago.

Around two dozen FBI agents swarmed Houck’s property in rural Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, at 7:00 a.m. “Having quickly surrounded the house with rifles in firing position, ‘they started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it,’” Houck’s wife, Ryan-Marie, told LifeSiteNews.

After pleading with the agents to calm down for the sake of his seven young children who were all present and crying, Houck opened the door. Ryan-Marie recalls “they had big, huge rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me and kind of pointed throughout the house.”


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