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pregnancy crisis counselors, however misleading the label seems, while preaching against abortion -- so long as they refrain from providing pregnant women with objectively inaccurate information. But insisting that New York's disclosure law "strips" them of their First Amendment rights, crisis centers have hired the American Center for Law and Justice to challenge it.Compare this righteous opposition to requirements that anti-abortion counselors present women with accurate information about their services and licenses, (or lack thereof) to the righteousness with which pro-lifers defend laws requiring abortion providers to present women with lists of horribles possibly attendant upon abortion, (a requirement upheld by the Supreme Court; the Court has also upheld a law barring recipients of federal funds from informing women about abortion options.) In other words, on the pro-life planet, abortion providers lack free speech rights to counsel patients without interference from the state, while anti-abortion |
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