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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Sotomayer, who has Type 1 diabetes. I’m surprised she’s lasted this long. They get heart attacks, strokes, and renal failure.
I started praying every night to St. Michael the Archangel when Obama got elected.
Liberals have been trying for decades to get rid of Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC). In some places, even phone book companies harassed the cpc’s by refusing to allow them to be listed under abortion alternatives. They tried to get CPC listings somewhere people wouldn’t see those listings... Upto force cpc’s to become fronts for a multi-million dollar industry of blood money, is spiritually and attempt to force them to kneel at the alter of Baal. In back history, Baal thrived on the blood of innocent infants. His spirit is alive and well today, still demanding the blood of infants.
I agree, just in case...
The “wise-Latina” is not doing well healthwise either.
Kennedy’s concurring opinion goes beyond the Majority to the question of the threat the FACT law posed to Liberty.
Remember, it was 5-4 on ‘allowing’ the Boy Scouts to set their own admission standards.
Libs must be gasping for breath with all of this recent good news from the Supreme Court.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.
That the ruling was 5-4 only shows how extreme leftist those four "justices" are. The usual suspects--Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan--got it wrong, while schizophrenic Kennedy (wrong on Obergefell) got this one right.
SO
MUCH
WINNING!
I am very very happy about this.
My day is not so wonderful.
There are FOUR Associate Justices who voted that the President does NOT have the authority specifically granted by the Constitution and by statute.
There are FOUR Associate Justices who voted that pro-life people have NO RIGHT to speak their convictions. To SPEAK.
Our liberties hang by a thread.
Don’t blame girlishness. FR girls are all in for NTOWY.
At my parish, we say it daily after the 8:30 morning Mass. Makes me feel somebody’s got my back.
“Our liberties hang by a thread.”
Yes, but So does Ginsburg. And Kennedy has just about had it.
President Trump will get at least 1 more, and God willing 3 by 2024. Then there are all the lower Court appointments. If McConnell gets his ass in gear our side will control the Federal courts for a generation.
Best,
L
NTOWY????
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