{"id":156262,"date":"2016-11-08T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=156262"},"modified":"2016-11-08T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:40:51","slug":"pro-life-pregnancy-centers-shouldnt-be-forced-to-promote-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-pregnancy-centers-shouldnt-be-forced-to-promote-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life pregnancy centers shouldn\u2019t be forced to promote abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(The Daily Signal<\/a>) If a California pro-life pregnancy center refuses to speak the state government\u2019s propaganda, it would face a civil penalty of $500 for a first offense and $1,000\u00a0for each subsequent offense.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the result of a decision in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Harris<\/em>, issued by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. That decision, released in October, upholds a California law that forces life-affirming pregnancy resource centers to promote abortion.<\/p>\n

California\u2019s so-called \u201cReproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency Act\u201d requires licensed pregnancy resource centers to instruct women on how to receive \u201cfree or low-cost access to \u2026 abortion\u201d in direct contradiction of their mission of providing compassionate alternatives to abortion.<\/p>\n

Alliance Defending Freedom represented the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates in the case. After the ruling, Matt Bowman, ADF senior counsel,\u00a0argued<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cforcing these centers to promote abortion and recite the government\u2019s preferred views is a clear violation of their constitutionally protected First Amendment freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

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