In October 2011, San Francisco’s Pregnancy Resource Centers came under fire through a city ordinance restricting what they are allowed to say to potential clients. The law applies to pro-life pregnancy centers who provide medical services, but who choose not to counsel or refer patients for abortions or the morning after pill. The ordinance does …
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UPDATE Abortions by non-doctors stopped for now but … Thanks to all of you who contacted your state representatives regarding SB 1338. After the bill passed in the Senate Public Safety Committee, it was then re-referred to the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. (Story available here). The bill failed in the April …
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Life Legal Defense Foundation Kept the Pressure on By Defending the Defenders of Life May 2, 2012: LLDF’s Allison Aranda wrote a letter applauding the license denial but demanding the immediate closure of the NWAW clinic due to the blatant efforts to subvert the consent agreement. Please also see Citizen Link article Alabama Health Officials: …
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Recap and Update of Current Cases Sidewalk counselors FACE wave of attack Alison Aranda The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, passed by Congress in 1993, was purportedly enacted to protect women seeking abortion and abortion providers against threats of physical violence. The Obama administration, however, is using the FACE Act to intimidate …
January 22, the anniversary of the deadly Roe v. Wade decision, is traditionally marked by events hosted by both pro-life and pro-abortion groups. This year, a pro-abortion group (called variously Trust Women, the Silver Ribbon Campaign, and the Center for Policy Analysis) decided it would commemorate not just the Roe v. Wade date but the …
[This article was printed in Lifeline Vol. XXI, No. 1 (Spring 2012) Read in PDF.] LLDF held its Annual Benefit on November 5, 2011. Once again, the venue was the Terrace Room at The Lake Merritt Hotel in Oakland, California. The Terrace Room is a 1920s art deco supper club with a panoramic view of …
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[This article was printed in Lifeline Vol. XXI, No. 1 (Spring 2012) Read in PDF.] [Thomas Brejcha of the Thomas More Society reports firsthand on the status of the various lawsuits in Aurora, Illinois. Life Legal Defense Foundation is proud to partner with Tom and the TMS on these legal cases.] Three separate cases arose …
Dana Cody Thomas Jefferson believed that “No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.” Certainly he was referring to the free exercise clause of the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution which not too many years before …