Anti-abortion activist Mark Houck will attend the State of the Union address Tuesday as a guest of Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) a week after a jury acquitted him of federal charges following a 2021 incident outside a Planned Parenthood clinic.
Last week, Houck was acquitted of charges brought by the Department of Justice under the Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances Act, which prohibits protesters from blocking the entrances to abortion clinics. The charges stemmed from an October 2021 incident in which Houck shoved clinic escort Bruce Love. Houck said he was only trying to get Love away from his son.
CATHOLIC ACTIVIST ACQUITTED AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF SHOVING ABORTION CLINIC VOLUNTEER
“Privileged to welcome my SOTU guest, Mark Houck, an innocent victim of [President Joe Biden’s] reprehensible abuse of power, whose only ‘crime’ was to use his God-given constitutional rights to protect his family, faith, and way of life,” Perry tweeted on Tuesday. “[Biden] should see the faces of those he seeks to destroy.”
Privileged to welcome my SOTU guest, Mark Houck, an innocent victim of @POTUS’s reprehensible abuse of power, whose only “crime” was to use his God-given constitutional rights to protect his family, faith, and way of life. @POTUS should see the faces of those he seeks to destroy.
— RepScottPerry (@RepScottPerry) February 7, 2023
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Houck’s arrest in September 2022 following an FBI raid at his home drew widespread outrage from conservative and anti-abortion activists who decried the incident as the latest example of the Biden administration’s targeting of political enemies.
If the Catholic father and activist had been convicted, he would have faced up to 11 years in prison.
