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Mark Houck gives a speech at the Men's March in Boston on Oct. 15, 2022. / Credit: Screenshot of Facebook Livestream "My Mother Mary" Philadelphia, Pa., Jan 27, 2023 / 17:48 pm (CNA). The jury deciding the fate of pro-life activist Mark Houck could not come to a decision Friday on whether the Catholic father of seven broke a federal law in a shoving incident outside a Philadelphia abortion clinic in 2021. U.S. District Judge Gerald Pappert entered the courtroom around 5 p.m., almost two and a half hours after he sent the jury out for deliberation, and said that he received a ...

The jury deciding the fate of Mark Houck was "deadlocked" after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation Friday in a case that could see the pro-life advocate imprisoned for up to 11 years if found guilty of a federal violation for pushing an abortion clinic escort in a verbal dispute. Jurors will reconvene on Monday.

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the arrest of an Illinois man a little over a week after he allegedly set fire to a Planned Parenthood facility.

The Houck family / Photo credit: Thomas More SocietyPhiladelphia, Pa., Jan 26, 2023 / 17:45 pm (CNA).On the second day of witness testimony in the trial of Mark Houck, a pro-life father of seven charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, defense lawyers argued that the federal case against their client be dismissed.Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Gerald Pappert himself raised that possibility, asking the prosecution at one point whether the federal law didn't "seem to be stretched a little thin here?" Before the court adjourned to conside...

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