Michael Mukasey Stands Up for Pro-Life Family Raided by FBI

The former U.S. attorney general makes clear that Americans are watching. More of us need to be.

Share this story

Former U.S. attorney general Michael Mukasey testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing for William Barr to be attorney general of the United States on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 16, 2019.

Yuri Gripas/Reuters

Washington, D.C. โ€” You may have heard the name Mark Houck. Or perhaps โ€” maybe โ€” you heard what happened to him? He was arrested last September. Or, for a clearer picture: FBI agents stormed his home early one Saturday morning, waking โ€” and shocking โ€” Houck and his wife Ryan-Marie and all their young children. To this day, one of the youngest is still having nightmares about the event.

His supposed crime? A year before, in October 2021, he shoved a pro-choice Planned Parenthood clinic volunteer who was harassing his eleven-year-old son. If you talk with Houck, he will tell you that it wasnโ€™t his first move. He politely asked the man to stop shouting obscenities at his son. Shoving was not his first resort โ€” but more like the eventual protective instinct of a father.

KL

About the Author

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.

Comments

Advertisement

Advertisement