A Riverside county superior court judge ruled that a California law mandating that anti-abortion pregnancy clinics tell their clients about prenatal care services and abortion violated the free speech rights of the clinics. (Courthouse News Service, November 1, 2017, by Nathan Solis)
The judge wrote that the law “interferes both with the right of the clinician to speak and with the right of the patient to hear what the clinician would say in the absence of state censorship.” (San Francisco Chronicle, November 1, 2017, by Bob Egelko)
Anti-abortion interests are also pursuing the issue in federal court, appealing a 2016 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the California law. The Supreme Court is expected to announce soon if they will take the case. (Los Angeles Times, October 27, 2017, by David G. Savage)