“Supreme Court agrees to hear antiabortion challenge to California disclosure law for pregnancy centers” (see link below)
At the center of the issue is the habitual misrepresentation and blatant lies employed by “crisis pregnancy centers” to lure pregnant women in where they can be brow-beaten and jerked around psychologically. Many of these organizations have no medical personnel yet try to present themselves as medical clinics.
I’ve read half a dozen articles about this today but the Los Angeles Times has by far the best, most detailed coverage.
The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear an anti-abortion group’s free-speech challenge to a California law that requires “crisis pregnancy centers” to notify patients that the state offers subsidies for contraception and abortion…
California lawmakers passed the disclosure law two years ago after concluding as many as 200 pregnancy centers in the state sometimes used “intentionally deceptive advertising and counseling practices that often confuse, misinform and even intimidate women” about their options for medical care.
The law, known as the Reproductive FACT Act, says these centers must disclose whether they have a medical license and have medical professionals available. They must also post a notice in the waiting room that says, “California has public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services, including all FDA-approved methods of contraception, pre-natal care and abortion.” The notice includes a phone number for a county social services office.
And here’s the crux of how the Forced Birthers successfully got this case to the Supreme Court when other similar cases haven’t:
The court’s decision to hear the case may reflect the impact of new Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. He had shown a strong interest in religious liberty claims as an appeals court judge. A few weeks after he arrived, the high court announced it would hear the case of the Colorado baker. It takes the vote of four justices to hear an appeal, and five to have a majority. That suggests the outcome in the California case, like the one from Colorado, will turn on the vote of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
I’ve read numerous times about these Forced Birther bastions setting up across the street from Planned Parenthood clinics or moving in when a Planned Parenthood clinic has closed down. They seem more than happy to let women think they’ve walked in to a real medical clinic until they can get them in to a room where they’re often teamed up against by fervid Forced Birthers who do their best to guilt trip them and fill their heads with phony pseudo-science propaganda.
There’s lots more detail at the link: