An Illinois law that targets crisis pregnancy centers in the state was temporarily put on hold by a federal judge who said it violated free speech.
He said before the law passed around 100 people regularly attended their prayer vigils, but that dwindled to around 30 afterward. that allows the state attorney general to crack down on crisis pregnancy centers deemed to be using"deceptive tactics" to influence pregnant women who come to them to not get abortions.
"It was very heartening to know that the judge recognized that our clients are facing a credible threat, that their speech is being chilled, and that’s really important," Attorney Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society, who represents the plaintiffs, said after the ruling. "No matter which side of the abortion issue you’re on, we don’t silence speech. The judge made that point very clearly today.
"For decades, crisis pregnancy centers have targeted our patients using deceptive and false practices," she said."Often crisis pregnancy centers provide misleading and medically inaccurate information, sometimes deliberately misdiagnosing patients or misdating their pregnancies, so people think they have more time to decide about abortion or that they are past the time when they can have an abortion.
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