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Lawsuit pending over Montgomery County?s restrictions on pregnancy centers

By ADF Alliance Alert

Gazette.net: "The Baltimore case, though, is rather directly on point and should make it clear that the Montgomery County law also is unconstitutional," said Casey Mattox, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund. The Alliance Defense Fund, based in Washington, D.C., specializes in free speech and anti-abortion cases. The organization is representing the pregnancy resource center for free. Mattox said both laws restrict pregnancy centers that do not provide abortions, and both also regulate the centers based on their speech. Both laws, he said, were specifically intended to avoid imposing restrictions on abortion facilities."That's viewpoint-based discrimination," Mattox said, adding that abortion clinics are in need of further regulation.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).