Posted on 07/12/2024 10:08:14 AM PDT by Morgana
In a ruling on June 27, the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned a lower court injunction that had prevented a pro-lifer from coming near a Planned Parenthood nurse to share his convictions.
Brian Aish has been advocating for life outside the Planned Parenthood facility in Blair, Wisconsin since 2014. According to Thomas More Society, Aish “preached the Christian message of repentance and shared his pro-life views on the public right of way.” In 2020, a Planned Parenthood nurse, Nancy Kindschy, filed a restraining order against Aish; that same year a county judge granted an injunction against him, which was upheld in 2022 by a state appeals court on the grounds that the nurse found Aish’s message “threatening.” Aish’s messages to Kindschy were calls urging her to give up her job working for the abortion business, including “turn to Christ and repent,” because “you could get killed by a drunk driver tonight.”
In its unanimous ruling, the state’s Supreme Court overturned the injunction, noting that it “violates the First Amendment,” and “the injunction is a content-based restriction on Aish’s speech and that it fails to satisfy strict scrutiny.”
In a concurring opinion, Justice Rebecca Bradley noted that the court “never deemed Aish’s statements true threats, and no reasonable factfinder could have made such a finding based on the record.”
“An unconstitutional injunction impermissibly infringed Aish’s fundamental First Amendment right to speak freely on ‘a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views,’” Bradley stated.
Thomas More Society Executive Vice President and Managing Counsel Joan Mannix stated, “We are very pleased that the Wisconsin Supreme Court vindicated Brian Aish’s free speech rights and restored his ability to continue sharing his pro-life message.”
“Importantly, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision was unanimous. It reaffirms that the First Amendment embodies a paramount American value of protecting free speech, even if the viewpoint expressed may be unpopular or controversial—a value that transcends partisan divides,” Mannix added. “The First Amendment, as Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote in her concurrence, ‘is a bulwark against the weaponization of the justice system to squelch or even criminalize disfavored political voices.’”
This is all for appearances of being ‘fair minded’ after their drop box decision.
Hallelujah!
So for 4 years this person was denied their first amendment rights. That can never be undone. When rights are taken away wrongly, there should be accountability.
Christians should rally their churches to donate to pregnant women considering abortion.
Give the woman $50,000 to have the baby and include all prenatal and delivery charges. Then the baby can be adopted easily to to couple that want a baby. The woman can keep the baby and the money if she wants to or offer it to a Christian church for adoption.
THAT would decrease abortions more than all the demonstrations at Planned Parenthood.
That would increase women getting pregnant for money.
There must be away around this....
More baby boxes in every town would help. Women would surrender the baby at birth and things would be much better.
Planned Abortionhood
Yep ... everyone who petitioned for an injunction against him, and the judge who granted it, should be facing civil and criminal trial for civil rights violations.
Find your nearest pro-life pregnancy center and do your part. The mechanism for what you suggest already exists ... what’s needed is your active participation.
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