Category: Sovereignty Rights

California has announced that a pro-life outreach center, Right to Life of Central California, can continue its sidewalk campaign near a Planned Parenthood clinic in Fresno. The decision comes after State Attorney General Rob Bonta stated that his office would not enforce the provisions of a 2021 law that had previously barred demonstrations by the pro-life group.

Congressman Chip Roy, R-TX, has introduced a bill that, if passed, would repeal the controversial Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The Biden administration has used the FACE Act to justify the arrests of numerous pro-life activists and protestors. While some, such as Mark Houck, were subsequently acquitted, others, such as Lauren Handy and her four co-defendants, were convicted on their charges and face significant prison sentences.

The video, which promotes Apple’s green ideology, includes an executive stating that ‘our goal is to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere,’ even though human beings themselves are a carbon-based life form.

State law SB 742 banned certain free-speech activities when a speaker is within 30 feet of another person and that other person is “in a public way or on a sidewalk area” and “within 100 feet of the entrance or exit of a vaccination site and is seeking to enter or exit a vaccination site.” As the lawsuit explained, this law restricted Right to Life’s ability to peaceably offer charitable services to women in need on the public sidewalk and street outside its own building—and even its own parking lot—because Right to Life is located next to a Planned Parenthood abortion facility that administers the HPV vaccine.

U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton nominee who presided over the previous trial, will oversee this one as well. She would not allow the video to be used as evidence. She also prohibited the defendants from arguing their actions were protected by the First Amendment or were committed in defense of a third person, unborn children.

Fourteen states and several pro-life groups joined a lawsuit, Vitagliano v. County of Westchester, on Friday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule laws restricting pro-lifers’ free speech near abortion clinics across the country.

The ACLJ is filing an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review in a pro-life free speech case and to end, once and for all, the “floating bubble zones” being used to stifle pro-life sidewalk counseling outside various abortion businesses across the country. The current case is Vitagliano v. County of Westchester, but there’s a big backstory to the issue.