First Amendment Rights are On the Line

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Imagine if abortion activists forced pro-life pregnancy resource centers to advertise taxpayer-funded abortions. Imagine if the government could criminalize a pregnancy resource center’s right to advertise its services on Google.

For our pro-life friends in California, both of these things are a reality. And the Ninth Circuit federal appeals court has let it happen.

That’s why we’ve already filed two friend-of-the-court briefs at the Supreme Court of the United States to stand up for pregnancy resource centers’ constitutional rights under the First Amendment.

Free speech is on the line. Free exercise of religion is on the line.

Earlier this month, we filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to take up the case of First Resort, Inc., a pregnancy resource center in San Francisco targeted merely because they bought a Google Ad for people searching, “abortion in San Francisco.”

Today, they’re coming for the pro-life clinics. If this legal precedent isn’t overturned, tomorrow they could come for immigration clinics, refugee centers, soup kitchens, and homeless shelters. The ability of the church to care for those in need is on the line.

Earlier this week, oral arguments were held for NIFLA v. Becerra, the other major pro-life case we filed a brief in.

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Respectfully,

Phillip Bethancourt
Executive Vice President, ERLC