The U.S. Supreme Court found Tuesday a California law requiring
pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to provide information about
state-funded abortions likely violates the First Amendment.
Tuesday’s
decision does not strike down the California law, known as the
Reproductive FACT Act. The case reached the Court on a request to
temporarily stay the FACT Act, not on the merits.
“In this case,
the government used its power to force pro-life pregnancy centers to
provide free advertising for abortion,” said Michael Farris of the
Alliance Defending Freedom, who was lead counsel for the clinics. “The
Supreme Court said that the government can’t do that, and that it must
respect pro-life beliefs.”
There are some 200 pro-life pregnancy centers in California. Read more here.
