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Child murder partisans attack pro-life free speech — right in OUR OWN BACK YARD!

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For over forty years, vigilant prayer warriors have peacefully gathered on public sidewalks in front of abortion mills to pray for women in crisis, babies on the verge of death, and workers blinded to the atrocity of abortion. They offer help, hope, and compassion. Only in a bizarre twilight zone universe are help, hope, and compassion viewed as threatening, antagonizing, …

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Give and Take, Supreme Court Style

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Katie Short When I first heard that the Supreme Court’s opinion in McCullen v. Coakley, the case challenging Massachusetts’s 35-foot abortion clinic buffer zone law, was unanimous, I was disappointed. I knew that a unanimous decision, one that had “Something for Everyone” as Justice Scalia put it, would be narrower and weaker than a hard-hitting …

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My Relationship With The Life Legal Defense Foundation

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Pastor Walter Hoye shares his thankfulness for the work of LLDF as we celebrate 25 years of fulfilling our mission through law and education. Pastor Walter Hoye In January of this year, my wife Lori and I were in Washington, D.C. meeting with the national leaders of the pro-life movement regarding the new “Declaration of …

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Is True Social Discourse “Terrifying?”

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Since the free speech rights of pro-life advocates are on review at the Supreme Court this term, there has been increased media discussion on the issue of abortion as well as the issue of free speech.  The coverage leaves one wondering, is it possible to have civil discourse over highly charged moral issues? Or does …

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What is Truly “Terrifying” in the Abortion Debate?

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With the McCullen v. Coakley  case before the U. S. Supreme Court, the pro-abortion forces seem determined to “prove” that so-called bubble zones and buffer zones are essential to protect women entering abortion clinics. Cortney O’Brien and LifeNews.com highlight a story from Cosmo magazine in which six women share their stories about “terrifying” and “infuriating” …

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Questions Remain in the Wake of McCullen v. Coakley Argument

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LLDF Legal Director, Katie Short Last Wednesday, at the United States Supreme Court, I had the privilege of joining many of my colleagues in the fight for the rights of the unborn and their advocates as we listened to the oral argument in the case of McCullen v. Coakley,  challenging a Massachusetts law creating a …

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History in the Making

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Katie Short When the state of Massachusetts came before the United States Supreme Court to defend its abortion clinic buffer zone law in McCullen v. Coakley, one would have expected it to rely heavily on the most recent Supreme Court decision in this area of the law, Hill v. Colorado, (2000). In Hill, the Court upheld a Colorado …

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Friends Indeed for Pro-Lifers at the Supreme Court

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Katie Short Call me a First Amendment junkie, but I actually enjoyed reading the fifteen amicus briefs filed in support of the pro-life sidewalk counselors in McCullen v. Coakley. McCullen concerns the constitutionality of a Massachusetts statute creating 35-foot buffer zones around abortion clinics. The law prohibits “entering or remaining” in these zones, with certain …

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“Abortion Exceptionalism” to be reviewed by U.S. Supreme Court

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As pro-life sidewalk counselors have experienced for years, there is often one set of rules for free speech at abortion clinics that bears little resemblance to the rules that apply everywhere else. These rules have been springing up all over the country and have unfortunately been upheld by the majority of reviewing courts. Most recently, …

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Late-Term Abortion: What the Numbers Tell Us

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Want to shut an abortion proponent up, or at least slow him down? Start talking about late-term abortions. Talk about Kermit Gosnell’s House of Horrors. Discuss the investigation of other late-term abortionists in Texas, New Mexico, New York and other states. Mention the bans on post-20-week abortions being debated or passed across the country, accompanied …

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