Judge upholds SF ordinance’s blatant attack on local women-helping centers
By Dave Andrusko
As we were wrapping up Tuesday’s edition of National Right to Life
News Today, I ran across a story in the San Francisco Chronicle
explaining that U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong of Oakland
had upheld the “Pregnancy Information Disclosure and Protection
Ordinance.” Since I just found a copy of Judge Armstrong’s decision and
have not had a chance to read it, a detailed story will have to wait
until Wednesday. (For background, see here.)
This blatant infringement of free speech was passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in October 2011 and covers only two pregnancy centers–Alpha Pregnancy Center and the much larger First Resort. It purports to protect women “seeking information regarding options to terminate a pregnancy” from receiving “untrue or misleading” information. The Ordinance was signed into law by Mayor Ed Lee in November 2011.
First Resort’s lawsuit fairly steamed with indignation at what it asserts is a blatant example of viewpoint discrimination intended to “chill” First Resort’s right to free speech–an ordinance bereft of legislative findings or underlying evidence to support the claim that First Resort is misleading women or providing them with false evidence.
More tomorrow.
Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong
This blatant infringement of free speech was passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in October 2011 and covers only two pregnancy centers–Alpha Pregnancy Center and the much larger First Resort. It purports to protect women “seeking information regarding options to terminate a pregnancy” from receiving “untrue or misleading” information. The Ordinance was signed into law by Mayor Ed Lee in November 2011.
First Resort’s lawsuit fairly steamed with indignation at what it asserts is a blatant example of viewpoint discrimination intended to “chill” First Resort’s right to free speech–an ordinance bereft of legislative findings or underlying evidence to support the claim that First Resort is misleading women or providing them with false evidence.
More tomorrow.
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