Federal judge upholds free speech rights of pro-life pregnancy centers

Invoking the First Amendment, a federal judge issued a temporary order barring New York City from enforcing a new law requiring crisis pregnancy centers to provide details including whether personnel was licensed and whether they performed abortions or provided emergency contraception.

The law was intended to provide information about the operation of pro-life clinics after pro-choice advocates claimed that crisis centers were using deception and false claims to prevent women from having abortions. -db

From The New York Times, July 13, 2011, by David W. Chen.

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