A prominent Catholic antiabortion activist accused of shoving a Planned Parenthood volunteer was acquitted Monday of charges that he instigated the encounter to intimidate workers at the organization’s Center City clinic.
Right-wing media had rallied around Houck’s defense, citing his prosecution as another instance of what they described as the Biden administration using the Justice Department against those with opposing political views. The Chicago-based Catholic public-interest law firm, the Thomas More Society, sent attorneys to take up his case.
The bureau maintained the tactics agents deployed that day were standard protocol for making arrests in the field. And Justice Department officials have attributed the rise in prosecutions -- 26 last year, compared to four the year before -- to He said he hoped Houck and his family would be invited to testify before Congress at upcoming committee hearings led by House Republicans investigating supposed political bias in the Justice Department.
Government witnesses, including many of the clinic’s staffers, described him as an aggressive “provocateur.” Love said he’d only been trying to protect to women leaving the clinic as Houck approached them with pamphlets when their first altercation occurred.“I was pretty upset,” Love told the jury. “This is not something that has ever happened to me in my life. I’m not a person who gets into fights.
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