The suit from Mark Houck, who recently lost a GOP primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, comes months after he was acquitted on charges tied to a scuffle with a Planned Parenthood volunteer
Playing devil’s advocate here but every Planned Parenthood I’ve seen has protestors just about everyday. They stand around with stupid signs and 99.9% of the time, nothing else happens. While I don’t agree with them, I don’t think bringing a 12 year old is a risky move.
Thank you, I went back and rechecked the timeline of events, and it seems the 2 incidents between Love and Houck happened on the same day. I had misremembered them as occurring on two separate days.
From the article I linked, it sounds like Houck was there to talk with women leaving the clinic, and to me that still seems a bit inappropriate. If they were just there holding up signs or something, I could be persuaded that having the kid there is not horrible. I feel that would be within his rights as a parent, even if I don’t support his cause. But this seems like him and his son were having direct contact with individual patients. I don’t think anyone wants a preteen boy involved in their personal medical affairs, let along women’s reproductive health. For Houck to do it himself seems like it is within his legal rights to try and provide what he feels is counseling, but to directly engage with patients seems off to me.
To be totally fair, I think Love was also legally allowed to say what he did to Houck, but I also feel it was not professional, especially if he also directed things to the kid. It’s not something he should have been assaulted for, but I think that was in poor taste as well. I get he’s probably had it up to here with guys like Houck, but you still should keep your cool at work. What he was saying was certainly not calming down the situation or being a professional representative for his workplace.
Both men really seemed to act inappropriately, and both parties should call this a wash and move on. Houck seem to just want more PR from it, and I don’t feel anything Love would gain from this would be worth the hassle and expense.
Playing devil’s advocate here but every Planned Parenthood I’ve seen has protestors just about everyday. They stand around with stupid signs and 99.9% of the time, nothing else happens. While I don’t agree with them, I don’t think bringing a 12 year old is a risky move.
Thank you, I went back and rechecked the timeline of events, and it seems the 2 incidents between Love and Houck happened on the same day. I had misremembered them as occurring on two separate days.
From the article I linked, it sounds like Houck was there to talk with women leaving the clinic, and to me that still seems a bit inappropriate. If they were just there holding up signs or something, I could be persuaded that having the kid there is not horrible. I feel that would be within his rights as a parent, even if I don’t support his cause. But this seems like him and his son were having direct contact with individual patients. I don’t think anyone wants a preteen boy involved in their personal medical affairs, let along women’s reproductive health. For Houck to do it himself seems like it is within his legal rights to try and provide what he feels is counseling, but to directly engage with patients seems off to me.
To be totally fair, I think Love was also legally allowed to say what he did to Houck, but I also feel it was not professional, especially if he also directed things to the kid. It’s not something he should have been assaulted for, but I think that was in poor taste as well. I get he’s probably had it up to here with guys like Houck, but you still should keep your cool at work. What he was saying was certainly not calming down the situation or being a professional representative for his workplace.
Both men really seemed to act inappropriately, and both parties should call this a wash and move on. Houck seem to just want more PR from it, and I don’t feel anything Love would gain from this would be worth the hassle and expense.