WASHINGTON — A professional-life activist focused by the federal authorities is likening his remedy by the Biden-Harris administration to that of a “tyrannical dictatorship” as he and others warn about abortion opponents doubtlessly dealing with a extra hostile setting if Vice President Kamala Harris is elected president.
The Household Analysis Council’s 2024 Pray, Vote, Stand Summit kicked off its first full day of programming on the Omni Shoreham Lodge on Friday. One of many panel discussions was titled “Kamala Harris’ Attacks on Life and the Family.”
The dialog, moderated by Mary Szoch of the FRC’s Middle for Human Dignity, centered on actions taken by the Biden-Harris administration focusing on pro-life activists and featured mentioned advocates warning about what may occur if Harris wins the presidential election. One of many audio system, pro-life activist Mark Houck, made headlines two years in the past after the FBI performed an early-morning raid on his residence in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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Houck described to the viewers what he noticed the morning of the raid, such because the presence of “ten marked and unmarked units on my property all surrounding my house lined up to the road,” in addition to “five federal agents with M-16 guns pointed at me” carrying “heavily armored vests.” He additionally recalled seeing “two battering rams, two SWAT at the back door” together with “20 to 25 federal agents and PA State Troopers” and legislation enforcement officers from the Bucks County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Houck recounted how legislation enforcement advised his spouse, “We’re taking him with or without a warrant.”
“That’s a sign of tyranny,” he mentioned, including that when “they wake sleeping children in the middle of the night and arrest their father at gunpoint, that’s a tyrannical dictatorship.”
Houck spent 10 hours in custody “chained to a table” earlier than he was launched on his personal recognizance, which he characterised as an acknowledgment that he wasn’t a “violent offender,” a “flight risk” or a “threat to the community.”
The daddy described his time in custody as an effort on the federal government’s half to “humiliate you, intimidate you and instill fear in you and make an example of you.”
As Houck defined, the raid occurred the identical day the U.S. Division of Justice launched an announcement asserting his indictment for alleged violations of the Freedom of Entry to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act stemming from an encounter that occurred exterior a Deliberate Parenthood facility in Philadelphia almost a 12 months earlier.
Whereas the indictment maintained that Houck “twice assaulted a man because he was a volunteer reproductive health care clinic escort” and “forcefully shoved” him to the bottom, a GiveSendGo fundraiser arrange for Houck tells a special model of occasions. On the time of the incident, Houck and his then-12-year-old son had been praying exterior the abortion clinic when “one of the escorts began harassing Mark’s son.”
“They walked down the street away from the entrance to the building. The escort followed them, and when he continued yelling at Mark’s son, Mark pushed him away,” the fundraiser famous.
Whereas a jury discovered Houck not responsible on federal costs, which spared him from a jail sentence of as much as 11 years, the pro-life activist detailed how the early-morning raid has brought on his household to expertise “PTSD,” referring to post-traumatic stress dysfunction. Houck and his spouse have since filed a lawsuit towards the Biden administration.
Szoch cited Houck’s remedy for instance of “what the Biden-Harris DOJ did and what we can expect a Harris DOJ to do should she be elected.”
She added, “We know that it’s not just about the top of the ticket. We know it’s about that person’s entire administration, and in the Biden-Harris administration, we saw the DOJ weaponized. We also saw the FDA remove safety regulations for the abortion drug mifepristone.”
“We also saw the Biden-Harris DOJ say they wouldn’t enforce the Comstock Act, which prevents abortion-inducing drugs from being sent through the mail,” she added.
The third panelist, Catherine Herring, survived her husband’s try to poison her and her unborn child with abortion drugs. Szoch attributed the scenario Herring discovered herself in to “the Biden-Harris administration removing those safety regulations” on the abortion drugs.
Szoch started the panel by noting that shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group resolution figuring out that the U.S. Structure doesn’t include a proper to abortion, Harris praised Democratic state attorneys common “rightly taking on pregnancy resource centers,” which she condemned for his or her purported “predatory practices.”
Janet Durig of the Capitol Hill Being pregnant Middle defined how shortly after the Dobbs resolution, her banquet was interrupted by eight pro-abortion activists who “found their way into empty seats” and screamed profane messages that included the phrase “blood on your hands” each time she tried to talk. Durig expressed concern that “If the right person doesn’t get into office,” the hostile remedy skilled by her and different pro-life being pregnant facilities would “escalate.”
Szoch insisted that “there needs to be a fairness with how the FACE Act is enforced,” suggesting the existence of a double customary relating to the persecution of pro-abortion activists who violate the legislation by focusing on those that present “reproductive health services” and pro-life activists who do the identical. After Szoch famous that she “didn’t see anything about those people being prosecuted,” Durig quipped, “Nothing was in the newspaper about it.”
Durig expressed hope that the following administration would “set a tone that hasn’t been set in a very long time.” She lamented that “the negativity out there is so hateful that you almost don’t want to tell someone that you work in a Christian pregnancy center.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Put up. He could be reached at: [email protected]
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