SCOTUS rules for faith based pregnancy crisis centers

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And stops a California law in its tracks.

Trump just keeps on winning.

Supreme Court rules for faith-based pregnancy centers, blocks California disclosure law

 

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Upholds the travel ban too!

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Now SCOTUS strike down the various state laws that force women to attend religious-based indoctrination centers if they are choosing abortion. At least the California notice at issue did not offer any opinion about pregnancy and abortion. It is very neutral and merely stated that help is available and gives phone numbers as to where to call.

Whereas some of these state laws force women into being proselytized by sectarian religious groups, there is no indication that these centers and "counselors" are licensed or are covered by privacy laws that protect their identities, whether anyone at these centers touches a patient or requires her to disrobe or to urinate, whether women can have family and friends with them at all times, whether patients are allowed to record the "counseling" session, how these centers report to the government that a patient has reported for her legally mandated "counseling," what the government does with this information, and whether the government has available a list of state-approved facilities such that patients can chose to obtain the required "counseling" from people of their own beliefs and backgrounds. Some of these states even dictate to doctors what they have to tell their patients.

Moreover, any information that these "counselors" give out is readily available on the internet, and to be sure, the state government can put it on its website in a neutral, factually correct format, or prepare a handout to be distributed in doctors' offices with the same information. There is no need to require a personal visit.

No level of government should be involved in religious proselytizing. No level of government should force anyone to attend any meeting with anyone at all, except if they are on parole. The First Amendment is being gutted.