{"id":275300,"date":"2022-09-04T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=275300"},"modified":"2022-09-02T19:00:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T00:00:59","slug":"pro-life-pregnancy-clinic-fought-ordinances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-pregnancy-clinic-fought-ordinances\/","title":{"rendered":"How one pro-life pregnancy clinic has fought back against unconstitutional ordinances"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is a fast-rising trend in the abortion industry and among its supporters to intimidate and shut down pro-life pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) using a variety of tactics. Abortion advocates are leaving fake reviews<\/a> of pro-life centers online, and some are attacking<\/a> the centers themselves with graffiti and firebombs. Yelp<\/a> and Google<\/a> have also lent support to anti-PRC sentiment. Abortion organizations are being quieter with their efforts, but behind closed doors, they are feeding specific language to city councils designed to help them write unconstitutional ordinances, which have proved effective in some cities. Those ordinances are attempting to dictate how pregnancy centers advertise and what they tell their clients.<\/p>\n

In June 2018,\u00a0\u00a0the Supreme Court of the United States\u00a0handed down a 5-4 victory<\/a>\u00a0to pro-life pregnancy centers in the case\u00a0NIFLA v. Becerra<\/em>, as California\u2019s 2015 \u201cReproductive FACT Act\u201d attempted to force non-profit pregnancy resource centers to promote\u00a0abortion<\/a>\u00a0through government-mandated messaging. The court ruled that the FACT Act \u201clikely violates the First Amendment,\u201d and sent the case back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

That ruling should have prevented anti-PRC ordinances from passing in any city, yet they continue to be introduced.<\/p>\n

Legitimate pro-life health care<\/h3>\n

Clearway Clinic, a pro-life pregnancy center licensed by the state of Massachusetts as a women’s health clinic, recently came up against two proposed anti-PRC ordinances. Clearway Clinic has two centers \u2014 one in Springfield and one in Worcester \u2014 with six state-licensed nurses and four state-licensed physicians between them. Each is within three miles of a Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

“We are actually licensed by the state itself as a women’s health clinic. So for our state leaders to come out and say that we’re not licensed is categorically false and demonstrably so. The thrust of this is we provided an alternative to Planned Parenthood, and we do not provide or refer for abortion, and we educate our clients on the dangers of abortion,” Clearway Clinic Executive Director Kelly Wilcox told Live Action News.<\/p>\n

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