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(Pregnancy Help News<\/a>)\u00a0Following a major federal court loss last fall, the state of Hawaii will pay more than $60,000 to cover the legal fees of pro-life pregnancy help centers that would have been forced to advertise for abortion under an unconstitutional state law.<\/p>\n

That law is one of many that pro-abortion politicians have passed clamping down on the First Amendment rights of pregnancy help centers. Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California law in NIFLA v. Becerra<\/em><\/a>, jeopardizing similar city and state mandates. Hawaii\u2019s was one of the casualties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Similar to Assembly Bill 2775 in California, Hawaii Senate Bill 501 (later retitled Act 200) required pro-life pregnancy centers<\/a> to direct women to a state agency that provides abortion referrals and funding. It also would have required pro-life centers to post large signs or provide notice to clients that the state of Hawaii \u201chas public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services,\u201d which include abortion-inducing drugs.<\/p>\n

Last fall, Jor-El Godsey, president of Heartbeat International, a global network of 2,600 pregnancy help organizations, warned of the high costs associated with such unconstitutional measures.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Office for Civil Rights: California violated federal law when it bullied pregnancy centers<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRather than cost taxpayers thousands or even millions more on such frivolous lawsuits, pro-abortion lawmakers should actually read the courts\u2019 rulings, and, better still, work to support women so they don’t feel forced or coerced into an unwanted abortion,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n

Hawaii\u2019s payment, which will be appropriated<\/a> as part of House Bill 942<\/a>, comes five months after the city of Baltimore\u2019s spending board voted to pay $1.1 million<\/a> to cover the legal fees of Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns<\/a>, a pregnancy help center that serves 1,200 clients annually. In that case, a federal court had ruled that a city ordinance violated the center\u2019s First Amendment rights as well.<\/p>\n

Despite the mounting costs and court losses, politicians have continued to pursue comparable measures in states like Connecticut. At the same time, as states work to expand late-term abortion laws, some are removing certain conscience protections that prevent pro-life health care providers from being forced to participate in abortions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs abortion extremism ramps up, states should beware the costs of such pro-abortion policies,\u201d said Godsey. \u201cOf course, our hope is that they\u2019ll see not only the financial cost of these laws, but the inestimable moral cost of taking an innocent child\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at Pregnancy Help News<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

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