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 consider dismissal, arguments from the prosecution and defense focused on two questions. First, did Houck, a longtime sidewalk counselor outside of the Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia, shove a volunteer clinic escort because he was trying to interfere with that escort's provision of reproductive health services?And second, did the clinic escort, 73-year-old ...