In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of faith-based crisis pregnancy centers by striking down a California law forcing them to present abortion — the exact thing they exist to try to prevent — as an option to expectant mothers seeking services.
The court said the law violated the First Amendment by forcing facilities established by groups who believe abortion is murder to advertise information on them.
The decision was a win for the clinics, known as “crisis pregnancy centers,” which had argued the requirements under the state’s Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care and Transparency Act, or FACT Act, infringed on their speech rights, forcing them to promote a procedure they morally oppose.Justice Clarence Thomas delivered the opinion of the court, which Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch joined.
Justice Stephen Breyer filed a dissenting opinion, which Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined.
Here's what former Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards had to say about it on Twitter:
SCOTUS today: upholds the immoral Muslim ban and says it’s just fine for fake clinics paid for with tax $ to lie to women about their pregnancies and withhold medical information. We’ve got to be ready for November.Got it? It's "withholding medical information" to not have to put up a sign saying, "Now, if you like, you can go down the street and get your son or daughter exterminated." Not sure just what she means about lying to women.
And the other SCOTUS decision does not uphold a "Muslim ban."
Keith "Stolen Land" Ellison, speaking of Twitter, says it is:
The US Supreme Court just ratified Donald Trump’s “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entry into the United States.But Liz Wheeler, host of OANN's Tipping Point shuts his stuff down good and proper:
Six Muslim majority nations on the list. Two NON Muslim majority nations.
All of which have ties to terrorism.
All of whom can get OFF the list if they stop sponsoring terrorism.But back to the subject at hand, brace yourselves for a barrage of feminist fury over the pregnancy-clinic decision.
The Supremes have spoken. I accept and respect both decisions based on their interpretation of the law of this (formerly great to some) land and its government of laws, not men. Trump is blowing off about how VERY wrong his opponents were on the Muslim ban. 5 to 4 is not demonstrative of being VERY wrong. It demonstrates how reasonable minds can differ. As attributed to Patton: "if everyone is thinking alike, somebody ain't thinking," I also applaud their 5 to 4 decision barring the pigs from snooping on our cell phone conversations without a warrant.
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