Posted on 07/16/2017 5:25:08 PM PDT by Jyotishi
Under a law signed on Wednesday, pro-life pregnancy centers in Hawaii will be forced to tell patients about free abortions provided by the state.
And if they don't, they could face fines up to $1,000 dollars for a repeated offense.
There are currently five pro-life centers in the state.
"This clinic does not provide abortion services or abortion referrals. Only ultrasounds performed by qualified healthcare professionals and read by licensed clinicians should be considered medically accurate," reads the mandatory notification the centers will have to provide patients with. "Hawaii has public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services including all FDA-approved methods of contraception, prenatal care, and abortion for eligible women."
Some organizations and groups feel the law harms more than it helps, and that it corners women in difficult situations into thinking abortion may be the only way out.
"Hawaii's pregnancy help organizations are delivering caring, compassionate help for women and families at absolutely zero cost to the state's taxpayers," said president of Heartbeat International Jor-El Godsey. "No woman should ever feel so alone or trapped that she feels abortion is her only option, but this is exactly the situation laws like these create."
The Alliance Defending Freedom is representing a pregnancy center on Oahu, as well as a network of other centers.
"Government is supposed to be freedom's greatest protector, not its greatest threat," said Elissa Graves, who is serving as legal counsel with ADF. "Americans should always have the freedom to think and speak without fear of unjust government punishment. Freedom of speech also means the freedom to not express views that would violate one's conscience. Yet, under this law, Hawaii is forcing pro-life centers and physicians to provide free advertising for the abortion industry against their conscience. Because of the First Amendment's protections, courts have repeatedly rejected these types of laws as unconstitutional."
Another lawsuit filed earlier this week, Calvary Chapel Pearl Harbor v. Chin, would require a judge to declare the new law unconstitutional and force the state of Hawaii cease enforcing it.
The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, as well as the A Place for Women Pregnancy Care Center, are also challenging the mandate according to Christian News.
Illinois passed a similar law recently, and California has had one since 2015.
The 9th Circuit Court, which encompasses both Hawaii and California, shot down an attempt to dislodge California's version of the law in October of last year.
However, further action could go over the 9th Circuit Court, and up to the Supreme Court.
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Hawaii is the synagogue of satan.
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OK, are abortion clinics forced to show pregnant women what happens in detail when babies are aborted?
The left wants to destroy western civilization. In the end they will have to be deported if the west is going to survive.
Sure! Tell them all about abortion. How the baby’s skull is pierced before the child is chopped to bits. Tell them other about that, the regret, the long term physical consequences
Tell them about the higher risk of cancer.
If a reciprocal requirement is not mandated for abortion clinics, then I’d say the plantif has a good case of unequal treatment.
Demonic. We did the same thing here in California last year.
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We are entering a time of great change.
The “Governments of Men” will forever be over after the Day of Trumpets (Tishri 1) in 2024
Study and pray!
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Provide the required notification on a 5.25” floppy disk.
Are abortion clinics going to be forced to tell their clients that pregnancy centers don't rip out babies from the mother's womb?
If the roles were reversed, there would be Civil Rights lawsuits, restraining orders from activist judges, and the heavy hand of the US Attorney General stopping this in a big way.
OOPS! Should have said complying with the law to avoid fines while filing a 1st amendment based complaint keeps the life centers in the drivers seat. Alternatives would be to give the notice in Croatian or at the end of a brutally honest brochure on the truth of abortion.
Is the reverse true ? Must abortionists tell of other options besides abortion ?
If not, it seems the right to life folks have a compelling argument under the The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth and\or due process under the 5th.
Print up Colorful Flyers with the Governor’s picture stating,
” I want you to KILL your Baby”
Here is a List of my preferred Abortion Clinics to Kill your Baby.
Hand them out to everybody.
Congratulations, yours is about the first rational response.
I would tell them all about abortion, and give them accurate pregnancy information. Maybe even show them videos of living babies in the womb at every stage of pregnancy. Inform them of the long-term physical and mental consequences of abortion. THEN I would tell them that there are ghoulish lawmakers who would rather spend taxpayer money on funneling women to abortuaries than on providing them any kind of meaningful health care.
Perhaps having women be told the truth about abortion is not what the crooked Hawaii legislature had in mind.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Sadly, even though Congress has the 14A power to strengthen rights which the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect, I predict that do-nothing Congress is going to continue to sit on its hands and let the states get away with abridging constitutionally enumerated rights like it did during the lawless Obama Administration.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November 2018.
Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the swamp imo, it is actually up to patriots to drain the swamp in 2018, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.
Sure. Tell them all about it.
“We can help you, maybe even help find a married couple to adopt your baby. Or, you can go to this address and have it murdered.”
Just use the word murder instead of abortion.
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