Pro-life advocate Mark Houck has moved to dismiss the federal charges filed against him after he was arrested at his home in a dawn raid by armed FBI agents in front of wife and children, accusing the Justice Department of targeting him based on his abortion opposition.
The motion filed by Thomas More Society attorneys in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleges that the Biden administration engaged in “viewpoint discrimination and selective prosecution” based on Mr. Houck’s pro-life views.
“The DOJ has demonstrated clear and illegal hostility to the pro-life viewpoint in its statements and enforcement decisions, running roughshod over fundamental religious freedoms, free speech rights, and bringing an illegal selective prosecution here,” said the motion filed Monday.