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MD: ?Montgomery attorney stands behind county pregnancy center law?

By ADF Alliance Alert

The Examiner: Montgomery County's top attorney is standing behind a local law that requires pregnancy centers to post signs in their waiting rooms informing patients if they don't employ medically licensed professionals, even though a judge threw out a similar ordinance in Baltimore . . . But now the Alliance Defense Fund, a District-based organization that focuses on anti-abortion and freedom of speech cases -- and represents Centro Tepeyac in the ongoing lawsuit -- says the ordinance won't be on the books much longer. "What it communicates to women is that the government thinks you should go somewhere else," said attorney Casey Mattox. "The laws are virtually indistinguishable. They intentionally crafted this bill to make sure it would not cover abortions but would single out pregnancy centers."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 09, 2011 (boomark / email).