Posted on 06/26/2018 8:25:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a California law that compels pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise abortion services is unconstitutional.
In a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Clarence Thomas and released Tuesday, the high court ruled in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra that the Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency (FACT) Act "unduly burdens protected speech."
"The unlicensed notice imposes a government-scripted, speaker-based disclosure requirement that is wholly disconnected from California's informational interest," wrote Justice Thomas.
"California has offered no justification that the notice plausibly furthers. It targets speakers, not speech, and imposes an unduly burdensome disclosure requirement that will chill their protected speech."
Thomas also wrote that the law not only forced pro-life centers to promote abortion, but to do so while diminishing their own message on pregnancy care.
"As California conceded at oral argument, a billboard for an unlicensed facility that says 'Choose Life' would have to surround that two-word statement with a 29-word statement from the government, in as many as 13 different languages," continued Thomas.
"In this way, the unlicensed notice drowns out the facility's own message. More likely, the 'detail required' by the unlicensed notice 'effectively rules out' the possibility of having such a billboard in the first place."
Thomas was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a dissent and was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan.
In 2015, California passed Assembly Bill 775 or the FACT Act. The law mandated that all licensed pregnancy health centers, among other things, include a sign that refers patients to abortion clinics.
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Once upon a time, Sonia Sotomayor made even pro-abortion advocates worry because prior to her SCOTUS confirmation, her record at lower level courts was spotty or even outright pro-life in some cases. She refused to answer for her personal views before the Senate, and identifies as a Catholic.
But post-entering SCOTUS, she has been fairly consistent on ruling against the side of Life.
On issues other than abortion however, her peer Elena Kagan has proven quite moderate at times and has even voted with the “right” side on some key occasions.
I’m guessing it means “not tired of winning yet.”
Correct.
Good new bump!
Always said after the Latin Mass. Only once do I remember it not being said (along with Hail Holy Queen, et.al.) and I never did find out why that was.
With respect to the extraordinary form of the Mass, the Leonine prayers are said after a low Mass, not after a high or solemn high Mass. Or did you mean the prayer to St. Michael was not said, but the other prayers were said?
Yet MORE WINNING!!
Yep, that’s the explanation. Thanks. This was a Missa Cantata and presumably a High Mass.
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