LifeNews.com - Alabama Pro-Life Advocates Win Free Speech Ruling on Abortion

by Steven Ertelt | Birmingham, AL | LifeNews.com |

For the last 13 years, law enforcement officials in Birmingham, Alabama have arrested peaceful pro-life activists for praying and sharing the pro-life message on a public sidewalk outside a local abortion business. But a new legal ruling presents a victory for free speech and a win for the pro-life message.

Until last October, it had been a decade since anyone praying for an end to abortion, distributing  information about abortion alternatives, or providing individual offers of help to women considering abortion could legally do so on the public sidewalks adjacent to the All Womens Health Center in Birmingham, Alabama.

For over ten years, a federal court injunction against a small group of activists had been used by the clinic and the Birmingham police to intimidate others from standing on the adjacent sidewalks, explains Jay Sekulow of the ACLJ. Being relegated to a distant sidewalk made effective offers of assistance and information difficult or impossible.

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