Donations Pour In for Pro-Life Father Targeted in FBI Raid

Donations continue to pour in for a father of seven who was handcuffed by FBI agents last Friday and arrested in front of his children.

Mark Houck, a Catholic pro-life speaker and author from Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, became the latest target in a string of Department of Justice-sponsored SWAT raids and arrests.

โ€œWith no prior warning, and in spite of the fact that Mark is represented by an attorney, Bidenโ€™s Justice Department sent a fully armed SWAT team into a home full of young children at daybreak, to arrest a father for protecting his son,โ€ Pennsylvania pro-life activists Ashley Garecht and her husband said via Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, calling the action harassment driven by what they called โ€œa corrupt and politicized justice systemโ€ under President Joe Biden.

About 25 to 30 FBI agents swarmed Houckโ€™s rural property in Bucks County at around 7 a.m. on Sept. 23, pointing rifles at the parents in front of their horrified children, according to Houckโ€™s wife Ryan-Marie. The 48-year-old was charged the same day with physically assaulting a patient escort at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia nearly a year ago.

If convicted of the offense, Houck faces up to a maximum of 11 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and fines of up to $350,000, according to the Justice Department.

The Garechts had gathered more than $137,000 via their crowdfunding page for the family as of Sunday, far beyond an initial $30,000 goal. Funds raised through the campaign will go to help the family with any necessary expenses, according to the site.

โ€œWe will not back down, we will not stop fighting to protect the lives of Pennsylvaniaโ€™s unborn children,โ€ said the Garechts.

The coupleโ€™s two teenage daughters were once harassed in 2019 by then-state Democrat Rep. Brian Sims for several minutes while praying outside a Planned Parenthood.

Allegation

Houck, who is a co-founder and president of The Kingโ€™s Men, a nonprofit group that promotes healing for victims of pornography addiction, also regularly provides sidewalk counseling and prays the rosary outsideย abortionย clinics in Philadelphia.

Byย Rita Li

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