Explain it’s been used dozens of times against pro-life activists
The family of Mark and Ryan-Marie Houck
By Mary Margaret Olohan
The Daily Signal
FIRST IN DAILY SIGNAL: Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy is leading lawmakers in calling for defunding the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, The Daily Signal has learned.
In a letter sent to the drafters of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2024, lawmakers asked that language be included prohibiting “funding for the Department of Justice to enforce the FACE Act.”
Roy drew on the DOJ arrest of Catholic father and pro-life activist Mark Houck, writing: “Last September, the American people watched in horror as dozens of heavily armed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and more than a dozen vehicles conducted an early-morning raid, with guns drawn, on the home of Mark Houck, his wife, and seven children.”
“Since then, Mark Houck has been found innocent of all charges, but Attorney General Merrick Garland has refused to admit that the overwhelming use of force against an innocent American citizen was a mistake,” Roy wrote.
But this is “far from the only example” of the Biden DOJ targeting American citizens with the FACE Act, the congressman said.
“In 2022, the FACE Act was used more than two dozen times against pro-life activists including Mark Houck, Father Fidelis Moscinski, Lauren Handy, Herb Geraghty, and a Holocaust survivor,” he continued. “Prior to this year, the FACE Act had never been used to indict individuals related to an attack on a pro-life pregnancy center or house of worship.”