Suit challenges law forcing pro-abortion speech
Illinois passed a law that requires the staff of pro-life centers to tell their clients that abortion is an alternative to saving their babies. In addition, the law stipulates that the staff must provide information about the abortion-provider with the cheapest price.
Conversely, abortion clinics are not required to refer abortion-minded women to pro-life centers to keep their babies or to consider adoption.
Practically speaking, the requirements force the pregnancy centers to act in a manner that is contrary to the pro-life mission and, in essence, to act as a referral. As a result, Thomas More Society attorney Thomas Olp has filed suit on behalf of 18 pro-life centers.
Illinois"It's unconstitutional," says Olp. "It's compelled speech, and it's viewpoint discrimination. It's a violation of the Equal Protection Clause."
The attorney contends that the law is another step the Left is taking to convince people that abortion isn't a moral decision.
"Anybody with a conscience realizes that abortion is inherently a moral issue," Olp tells OneNewsNow, "and it's an immoral act, and that'll never go away. So it's just another failed ploy by the pro-abortion industry to take what is morally unacceptable [and make it] acceptable…”
Thomas More Society is convinced that it will prevail. Similar ordinances in Baltimore, Maryland, and Austin, Texas, were overturned in the court system. One passed last year in California but has been challenged in court. https://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2017/02/17/suit-challenges-law-forcing-pro-abortion-speech
Conversely, abortion clinics are not required to refer abortion-minded women to pro-life centers to keep their babies or to consider adoption.
Practically speaking, the requirements force the pregnancy centers to act in a manner that is contrary to the pro-life mission and, in essence, to act as a referral. As a result, Thomas More Society attorney Thomas Olp has filed suit on behalf of 18 pro-life centers.
Illinois"It's unconstitutional," says Olp. "It's compelled speech, and it's viewpoint discrimination. It's a violation of the Equal Protection Clause."
The attorney contends that the law is another step the Left is taking to convince people that abortion isn't a moral decision.
"Anybody with a conscience realizes that abortion is inherently a moral issue," Olp tells OneNewsNow, "and it's an immoral act, and that'll never go away. So it's just another failed ploy by the pro-abortion industry to take what is morally unacceptable [and make it] acceptable…”
Thomas More Society is convinced that it will prevail. Similar ordinances in Baltimore, Maryland, and Austin, Texas, were overturned in the court system. One passed last year in California but has been challenged in court. https://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2017/02/17/suit-challenges-law-forcing-pro-abortion-speech
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The sheer arrogance of the left is simply stunning here. That they think they can coerce speech on the part of their opposition is a demonstration of the power they would wield over us all if they could.
Illinois passed a law that requires the staff of pro-life centers to tell their clients that abortion is an alternative to saving their babies. In addition, the law stipulates that the staff must provide information about the abortion-provider with the cheapest price.
Good for you Illinois.
Passing a law that requires a business to be truthful with their clients, instead of the 26 States that passed laws forcing business to lie, was the right thing to do.
A State-by-State List of the Lies Abortion Doctors Are Forced to Tell Women
In 26 states, abortion providers are required to carry "informed consent" brochures devised by conservative politicians, who say they're simply trying to help women make a difficult decision. But others say they're forcing doctors to give inaccurate and misleading information to their patients—with the intent of discouraging them from abortion.
When she worked at an abortion clinic in South Dakota, Dr. Diane Horvath-Cosper was legally required to tell prospective patients that there was a chance that abortion would increase their risk of breast cancer and suicide.
Immediately afterwards, she'd tell them that neither of those statements had any actual basis in medical science. "What I would say was, 'The state requires me to give you this information. We have excellent medical evidence to say that it's actually not true, but I'm required to tell you this,'" she recalls.
The shear arrogance of these A-hole, anti-women, anti-choice legislators who pass laws forcing business to lie to women when they come seeking medical help. Disgusting!
Kudos to Illinois legislators for doing the right thing for women and their families.
Then there are the states that require women to look at an ultra sound of a beating heart, as if that indicated a human being instead of just a fetus. Mike Pence tried to pas a law in Illinois that stopped abortion at the point a fetal heartbeat could be detected, which could mean that most women would be prevented from getting an abortion BEFORE they even knew they were pregnant! Abortion is a hard enough decision to make and it must remain one between the woman, her doctor and her own consciousness. The state has NO place in it and attempting to torture a woman in making that decision or not is nothing short of sadism.
ike Pence tried to pas a law in Illinois that stopped abortion at the point a fetal heartbeat could be detected, which could mean that most women would be prevented from getting an abortion BEFORE they even knew they were pregnant!
No he didn't.
Mike Pence was once Governor of Illinois? Who could ever have imagined such a thing?
His post contains so many falsehoods it's exhausting trying untangle them.
God is the most notorious abortion provider. He doesn't ask any questions, and women don't even get any say in the matter. He needs to be sanctioned.
Theophobia is ugly.
Theology is ugly. I'm sure that's what you meant to type.
At least you own your bigotry. Like the KKK.
Why are you an atheist?
Hal, you are not an atheist. You know God exists. You just live to hate Him with every fiber of your being.
He doesn't exist. I challenge that pussy to a fight every day, and he doesn't show up. Therefore, he must not exist. I know I'm a badass, but come on.
God has no interest in fighting you or anyone else. Instead He offers salvation and eternal life to all who love Him.
I highly doubt that a god would have any interest in hanging around you for eternity.
"Why are you an atheist?"
Because I have no faith in a higher power that science cannot confirm.
The interesting thing here is how the left here actually endorses and supports states using government power to coerce speech of those they disagree with.