Lawsuit Targets California Abortion Protest Restrictions
Attorneys filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state of California's law that makes it a crime to film people within 100 feet of an abortion clinic. Last month, Governor Gavin Newsom signed two laws that aim to protect the privacy of abortion providers and their patients, declaring California to be a "reproductive freedom state." The law says the 100-foot distance is needed to keep protestors from intimidating patients going to get an abortion. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Right to Life of Central California filed the lawsuit saying the law attempts to unconstitutionally restrict speech based on viewpoint by creating 100-foot censorship zones outside of any facility that provides any type of vaccine. Read more...