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The police department of Hollywood, Florida, has confirmed pro-lifers’ right to peacefully demonstrate on public sidewalks outside of abortion facilities, the Thomas More Society tells Live Action News via email.<\/p>\n

Last week, Live Action News\u00a0reported<\/a> that Officer Del Castillo had approached 40 Days for Life vigil participants outside of A Woman\u2019s Center and told them they had to leave the sidewalk. Thomas More responded by informing Hollywood PD it was in violation of the pro-lifers’ free speech rights, and demanding a reply by February 19.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Thomas More, Hollywood Police Department General Counsel David Margolis maintains that Officer Castillo was actually there to respond to the abortion center’s accusation that the pro-lifers had trespassed into their private parking lot, and had merely warned them not to, which the pro-lifers denied having done.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Margolis confirms that “I have informed the clinic that your clients are entitled to conduct a peaceful vigil on the public sidewalk,” so long as they do not “trespass on the clinic\u2019s private parking lot” or “obstruct the flow of vehicle or pedestrian traffic. With this guidance in mind, I am confident that everyone\u2019s rights can coexist.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The police department of Hollywood, Florida, has confirmed pro-lifers’ right to peacefully demonstrate on public sidewalks outside of abortion facilities, the Thomas More Society tells Live Action News via email. Last week, Live Action News\u00a0reported that Officer Del Castillo had approached 40 Days for Life vigil participants outside of A Woman\u2019s Center and told them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":88215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[366,7570,19,2508,72,909,1011,4601,2677],"yoast_head":"\nPro-lifers can demonstrate on abortion facility sidewalk, says Florida police department<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After a Hollywood, FL, police officer told 40 Days for Life participants to leave a public sidewalk, lawyers confirmed pro-lifers have a right to be there.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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