Anti-abortion activist Mark Houck is running for Congress in Pennsylvania, challenging centrist incumbent RepBrianFitz in a Philadelphia-area swing district during the April Republican primary for the 2024 elections.
“All my policies and everything I will support comes back to the dignity of the human person, and whether that’s in the womb or outside the womb, we’re going to do what makes sense for American citizens,” Houck said in an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner.
“American citizens should not be fearful that they're going to be raided as they wake up in the morning, that their children are going to be stirred from a slumber and the father be taken out of the home,” Houck said. “No citizen and Americans in America should live with that fear that this possibly could happen to them if they’re a devout Catholic or Christian, or they happen to do sidewalk counseling [at an abortion facility].
In the 2022 general election, Fitzpatrick won against Democrat challenger Ashely Ehasz by nearly 10% of the vote. Primary challenger Alex Entin, who ran on a traditional conservative platform, lost against Fitzpatrick's centrist approach by slightly over 31% of the over 90,000 registered Republicans who voted in April 2022.
When asked about whether a hard anti-abortion stance hinders a candidate’s success, he said the issue is much more “confusing and complex” than what some analysts suggest. Although Houck is known for his anti-abortion advocacy, he said the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case gave jurisdiction over abortion back to the states and that, as the campaign stands right now, “it’s not the time where abortion really is an issue for [either himself or Fitzpatrick] when it comes to running.”
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