Posted on 02/06/2023 2:14:46 PM PST by grundle
Spokane county judge ordered Church at Planned Parenthood to pay $960,000 for interfering with patient care
An anti-abortion group has been ordered to pay almost $1m in fines to Planned Parenthood, over demonstrations outside a clinic in Spokane, Washington state.
According to its website, the group, Church at Planned Parenthood, was formed to stage “worship service at the gates of Hell”.
It also calls itself a “gathering of Christians for the worship of God and the corporate prayer for repentance for this nation, repentance for the apathetic church and repentance of our blood guiltiness in this abortion Holocaust”.
In September 2021, a judge permanently banned protesters from the group from loudly demonstrating outside the Spokane clinic.
The judge, Timothy Fennessy, wrote: “Reasonable minds can only reach one conclusion, that Covenant Church [which founded the Church at Planned Parenthood group] intends to interfere with access to or safe and effective delivery of healthcare services” the Spokesman-Review reported.
Fennessy said the demonstrations created increased increased pain and other psychiatric symptoms for patients receiving care inside the clinic, KXLY, a Spokane TV station, reported.
Last month, a Spokane county judge ordered Church at Planned Parenthood to pay approximately $960,000 to Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho, for violating state law by noisily demonstrating and interfering with patient care.
According to the Spokesman-Review newspaper, the group was required to pay $110,000 in civil damages and $850,000 in attorney fees.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Pretty much similar reasons why St John the Baptist wen to prison and was executed .
The sheer scale of death organized at Planned Parenthood is breathtaking.
The headline is misleading. The Court may order, that doesn’t mean the group will pay. Appeals for starters, lack of funds also.
They didn't even have to pay for the buildings they burned.
We are living in very dark times where those who rule over us are very evil and full of hatred for God and godly people.
If the Pro-Life group didn’t violate any spacing requirements, how can this not be covered under the First Amendment?!?
The article also notes the group can still protest, but across the street, and an hour later.
If there is a public sidewalk on the clinic side, the church may well win the appeal, as long as the protestors were not physically preventing people from entering the clinic.
First Amendment doesn’t apply to non-progressive ideas.
The judge concludes that the violent termination of a human life in a mother’s womb is “healthcare services.” Twisted, failed judge.
Christianity is slowly but surely being outlawed.
850 thousand to the lawyers. hmmm
The government is the enemy.
May the folks at planned barrenhood have done to them what they do to the unborn ... also without pain medication.
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