Left's latest lunge at free speech will leave you speechless

Oral arguments took place today in a critical Supreme Court case that will decide whether the government has the power to force citizens and pro-life organizations to promote abortion.

The case involves three pro-life crisis pregnancy centers who are fighting a California law that requires them to promote abortion. In general, California AB 775 requires licensed medical centers that offer free, pro-life help to pregnant women to post a disclosure in printed and digital materials, and at both the entrance to their clinic and a visible location within the waiting area saying that the state of California provides free or low-cost abortion and contraception services.

The disclosure must also include a phone number for a county office that refers women to Planned Parenthood and others in the abortion industry, and forces unlicensed pregnancy centers to disclose they are not recognized by the state of California as an official medical facility. The notice must be in a font size and/or color that draws more attention to the disclosure than to the other words on the page, which obscure and crowd out their pro-life speech. Failure to comply carries civil fines up to $1,000 per violation.

To force crisis pregnancy centers to speak a message that goes directly against their religious beliefs and mission to save lives is a shocking and disturbing violation of the First Amendment’s protection of free speech – both the right to speak and the right to not speak.

The pregnancy centers subjected to this attempt to silence them provide free care and resources to thousands of Californians. Many of these women are alone and desperate for support, and a pro-life pregnancy resource center may be the only non-abortive option available for disadvantaged mothers who wish to choose life.

It's no secret that pro-faith, pro-life, and pro-family citizens and organizations are coming under increasingly hostile attack. It would be a serious blow to both the pro-life movement and free speech overall if the state is allowed to require forced speech from any citizen or organization. The Supreme Court should declare the law unconstitutional so as to block other states from following in California’s steps.

Can you imagine the racket we'd hear if Planned Parenthood were forced to advertise on its website and "clinics" where women can go to save their babies’ lives? I’m sure the noise would be deafening.

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A new low: "Christians" claim abortion is God's work

The season of Lent that we’re currently in apparently is having no impact on certain abortionists who claim their Christian faith actually gives them moral grounds for committing abortions.

“I became morally convinced that it was not a conflict of my Christian values to provide abortion care, and in fact it became unethical to me not to do so,” said self-proclaimed (and obvious relativist) "Christian" abortionist Willie Parker.

He recently published a memoir, “Life’s Work: A Moral Argument for Choice,” in which he wrote, “I believe that as an abortion provider, I am doing God’s work.” He also claims he is protecting women’s right to decide their futures for themselves and to live their lives as they see fit.

Question: isn’t God’s work the child in the womb that these abortionists are destroying?

Sarah Wallett, the medical director at Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis, has been equally outspoken about Christianity as her inspiration for ending the lives of babies in the womb. “I can imagine no person who is in greater need of Christ-like love and excellent medical care than a woman who is faced with an untenable pregnancy, and I am grateful every day to feel thy spirit and thy guiding hand on my work,” she said in a recent interview with the Memphis Daily News.

Who is “thy” in Wallett’s proclamation, I wonder: Christ, our Savior, Who came to us through, of all places, the womb?

She went on to say, “I think part of changing the conversation around all aspects of reproductive healthcare is having open, honest conversations about it. I hope to be able to provide accurate medical facts about this kind of care as well as compassionate, non-judgmental care for my patients.”

First, forgive me for wallowing in semantics, but an “untenable” pregnancy is, in the pro-abortion mindset, simply code for “unwanted” pregnancy. Second, since when do abortionists support “open, honest conversations” about the issue when there is a solid push to undermine pro-life initiatives, such as forcing crisis pregnancy centers to provide information on abortion services, or when abortion mills fight for the right of minors to procure abortions without parental consent?

On top of it, if people like Wallet want to “provide accurate medical facts”, they should start with the fact that abortion is not healthcare and abortion comes with documented health risks, which this “caring” community doesn’t care to acknowledge, let alone share with the women about whom they supposedly care.

Above all, no one can call himself a real Christian and ignore God’s Commandment, Thou Shalt Not Kill. These abortionists hide behind their pseudo-Christianity, but take an eraser to any of God’s laws that stand in the way of their anti-God agenda. They can assert all they want that they are doing God’s work, but in reality all they’re really doing is Satan’s bidding -- and, as Satan does best, they have been seriously deceived.

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