Posted on 08/20/2026 10:36:09 PM PDT by Morgana
New Jersey Right to Life (NJRTL) strongly condemns Governor Mikie Sherrill’s decision to sign S2260 into law. This legislation grants sweeping legal immunity to abortion providers and erects new barriers against accountability for activities the state now broadly labels “reproductive health care,” shielding them from certain investigations, legal actions, and records requests originating outside New Jersey.
“Governor Sherrill just signed a blank check for the abortion industry and a death warrant for countless unborn children with beating hearts, and she did it despite thousands of emails from New Jersey residents urging her to veto this bill,” said NJRTL Executive Director Marie Tasy. “S2260 does not protect women. It protects the people who end the lives of living human children already growing in the womb. New Jersey should be a sanctuary for mothers and babies, not a legal fortress for those who profit from abortion.”
S2260 extends protections to a wide array of procedures, treatments, medications, and services classified under state law as “reproductive health care.” It restricts out-of-state investigations, legal proceedings, and demands for records connected to those activities, insulating abortion providers from external scrutiny.
The bill also creates a new crime of “interference with reproductive health care services.” “Because terms such as “threat,” “intimidate,” and “coerce” are inherently subjective and rest on individual feelings, this language poses a serious danger to free speech,” said Tasy. “Peaceful sidewalk counseling, prayer, holding signs, or simply offering help and alternatives outside a facility can easily be labeled “intimidation” by someone who claims to feel threatened, leaving pro-life advocates open to criminal charges that are difficult to disprove and chilling constitutionally protected expression.”
“The use of the term ‘reproductive’ to describe abortion defies the very meaning of reproduction. Reproduction has already taken place once a child is conceived. Abortion does not advance reproduction; it ends the life of a living human child whose heart is already beating. Calling a procedure whose intended outcome is the death of that child “health care” is a perverse distortion of both language and reality.”
“This law is a deliberate act of defiance against the most basic human right — the right to life of every child in the womb with a beating heart,” Tasy said. “Governor Sherrill and her allies have chosen to put the full power of state government behind abortion while building walls to keep accountability out and they are now creating vague new criminal penalties that can be used to silence those who object to these radical policies. That is not compassion. That is blatant extremism. Women deserve meaningful support and genuine alternatives, not a state government focused on expanding protections for abortion.”
“No mother should ever be told that the only solution to her crisis is the death of her child; a living human being with a beating heart,” Tasy concluded. “We will not stand by while New Jersey turns abortion into a protected industry and criminalizes those who oppose it. We will fight for the day when every woman facing an unexpected pregnancy is met with practical support, genuine alternatives, and the unshakable truth that both her life and her child’s life are worth defending.”
Strange as that is some of them later wear T shirts that proclam how much they loved having their abortion. Why don't the abortion clinics give them this T shirt free as they leave the clinic after the abortion? You know, when they are crying and in pain.
Is that compliant with the First Amendment?
Now the USAID is gone, the only way the rat party can get money is to extort abortionists.
Of course not.
We’ve been side stepping the US constitution in all the first ten Amendments for decades, and activist courts go along with it.
There are no rights, there are no principals, it’s just whatever an angry mob wants, today.
Sad.
We could dress up as American Indians and tribal dance out in front of the clinics. Can you imagine the fear of God that would put in them? I could.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smSGUDRVPPo
They hate Christianity as much as they love killing babies. A double win for the demons.
How true!
Regards,
Unconstitutional. This will be struck down.
America is not England.
The dirty secret PP administrators know is that when people are outside praying, many women drive right by and don't keep their appointments.
WE don't see that, but THEY do. Hence they don't want us there.
But we're not Britain, (yet) - we will pray anywhere we want.
A made up right to kill your unborn child trumps actually speaking/praying outside a building!!!
Wake the F up America!!!
What do the different Native American religions believe about the morality of abortion?
What if mooselimbs set up prayer rugs?
Nevermind. Mikie does not have to pay the incoming legal bills out of her personal wallet. /sarc
It’s good to see so many herein, who treasure LIFE...
God bless each of you -
But it hurts so see so many Americans (of the Democrat party) who support INFANT MURDER.
Sounds like all the more reason to continue doing so. Get arrested, Rosa Parks style and take it all the way up to the Supremes. At this point, what do we have to lose?
Let’s see this being enforced if a bunch of jihadis decide to lay out their dirty ‘prayer rugs’ in front of an abortion clinic to have one of their group ‘prayer sessions’.
If they’re on the sidewalk (public property) they can’t stop it. It’s free speech.
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