LifeNews - Pittsburgh Repeals Ordinance Banning Pro-Life Leaflets

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com

The mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has signed off on a City Council-approved measure repealing an ordinance that faced an injunction from a judge because it restricted the right of pro-life people and others to distribute literature within the city.

The ACLJ filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of two pro-life advocates challenging the constitutionality of the Pittsburgh ordinance and, in October 2010, U.S. District Court Judge David Cercone granted a temporarily injunction to stop the enforcement of the law that bans putting fliers on parked cars in the city. The law bans any written literature “so as to cause litter or unreasonably interfere with pedestrians or traffic” without permission of the owner of the car.

Two pro-life advocates, Kathleen Ramsey and Albert Brunn, challenged the constitutionality of the law so they could place voter guides on vehicles and Edward White of the ACLJ, a pro-life law firm, argued the law was vague and stifled free speech. He said litter isn’t caused by people passing out pro-life information but by the drivers who toss the information to the streets instead of throwing it away. . . .

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