{"id":27228,"date":"2026-04-18T08:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=27228"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:58:52","slug":"pro-lifer-targeted-by-biden-admin-wins-7-figure-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=27228","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Lifer Targeted by Biden Admin Wins 7-Figure Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A pro-life activist has received a seven-figure settlement nearly four years after an early morning FBI raid on his home generated outrage and concern about the federal government\u2019s treatment of pro-life advocates outside abortion clinics.\n<\/p>\n

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In a\u00a0statement\u00a0published Thursday, the pro-life advocacy group 40 Days for Life Institute of Law & Justice announced that pro-life activist Mark Houck won a settlement of over $1 million nearly four years after the early morning\u00a0FBI raid\u00a0on his home generated outrage. Houck, a devout Catholic father of seven, was charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act by the Biden administration in 2022.\n<\/p>\n

The\u00a0FACE Act\u00a0subjects anyone who \u201cintentionally injures, intimidates, or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person\u201d who provides or assists in the provision of abortions to federal charges. The charges against Houck stemmed from an incident that took place as Houck and his son prayed outside an abortion clinic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in October 2021.\n<\/p>\n

While the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that Houck \u201ctwice assaulted a man because he was a volunteer reproductive health care clinic escort,\u201d requiring the escort to receive \u201cmedical attention,\u201d a fundraiser set up to pay for Houck\u2019s legal expenses told a different story: \u201cLast year, Mark and his son were praying in front of the PP at 12th and Locust. When one of the escorts began harassing Mark\u2019s son they walked down the street away from the entrance to the building. When one of the escorts began harassing Mark\u2019s son they walked down the street away from the entrance to the building. The escort followed them, and when he continued yelling at Mark\u2019s son, Mark pushed him away.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

While a jury acquitted Houck in\u00a0early 2023, Houck and his wife filed a\u00a0lawsuit\u00a0later that year alleging that the DOJ engaged in malicious and retaliatory prosecution, abuse of process, false arrest and assault.\n<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0video message\u00a0last Thursday, 40 Days for Life CEO Shawn Carney described the settlement as \u201ca bigger victory for the pro-life movement at large\u201d as well as \u201ca huge victory for free speech\u201d and \u201ca huge victory for all Americans who want our right to speak our minds peacefully in a law-abiding way without fear of our own government.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Carney maintained that the charges against Houck came as the pro-life movement and 40 Days for Life, in particular, received \u201cso much persecution from the DOJ under Biden\u201d and expressed gratitude that \u201cPresident Trump has corrected that.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been absolutely night and day. Under Biden, at one point, we were getting one to two inquiries from the FBI per week at different 40 Days for Life locations,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n

News of Houck\u2019s settlement comes as MS NOW has reported that the DOJ is scheduled to release a report concluding that the Biden administration \u201cshattered the public\u2019s trust by weaponizing the FACE Act to advance a pro-abortion agenda.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

In an interview with\u00a0The Christian Post, pro-life activists Terrisa Bukovinac and Randall Terry identified DOJ prosecutor Sanjay Patel as a key figure in the targeting of pro-life activists under the Biden administration.\n<\/p>\n

Terry named Patel as the DOJ official responsible for orchestrating the raid on Houck\u2019s home. The Houck raid sparked\u00a0calls\u00a0from Bukovinac, Terry and others to impeach then-U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and repeal the FACE Act. Terry has insisted, both four years ago and today, that the law \u201cbroke the back\u201d of the pro-life movement by subjecting those who engage in abortion clinic blockades to federal charges rather than local trespass charges. \u201cIt was always designed to isolate people of faith who wanted to defend the unborn,\u201d Terry told CP in an earlier interview.\n<\/p>\n

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This article was originally published at The Christian Post. Photo Credit: Give Send Go.<\/em>
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