The following comes from a May 23 story in the LA Times.
The Los Angeles city attorney’s office announced Monday that it is aggressively enforcing a new state law requiring pregnancy clinics to inform clients of their reproductive rights.
City Atty. Mike Feuer said his office is working in coordination with the Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs to ensure clinics follow the law because “women need timely, accurate and complete information” on their family planning options.
“We’re not going to wait,” Feuer told reporters. “Waiting for a day or a week or a month to enforce this law threatens the health and safety of women who during that time period may not be informed of their choices.”
The law, dubbed the Reproductive Fact Act, requires licensed facilities primarily providing family planning or pregnancy-related services to notify customers that the state offers free or low-cost access to a variety of family planning services, including prenatal care, abortion and contraception.
Unlicensed facilities offering pregnancy-related services must provide notice that they are not licensed by the state as medical facilities and have no medical personnel overseeing services under the new law, which went into effect in January.
Pregnancy centers that fail to follow the law could face a $500 fine for the first offense and $1,000 for each subsequent violation, the city attorney’s office said.
Feuer’s office sent notices to six pregnancy centers last week as the first step in ensuring the law is enforced, he said, because other clinics in the state have tried to dissuade women from terminating pregnancies.
It is not clear whether the six clinics that received letters have violated the law, according to the city attorney’s office. The letters simply serve as notices that the clinics have to comply with the law, Feuer said….
Big Brother once again interfering with the religious and privacy rights of others. It’s time for a boycott, a sit in and some excommunications!
Putting the brakes on ‘fundamental transformation’
https://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2016/05/26/putting-the-brakes-on-fundamental-transformation
“The Department of Justice has become an ideological weapon,” observes J. Christian Adams, himself a former DOJ attorney who quit with the new title of whistleblower in 2010.
Adams has been a watchdog of the DOJ ever since, and lately he’s been watching the federal agency fight the state of North Carolina over House Bill 2.
“These Are the Radical DOJ Lawyers Suing North Carolina Over Transgender Bathroom Use
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2016/05/22/every-single-one-meet-the-doj-lawyers-suing-north-carolina-over-trans-rights/3/
Satan has claimed the Democrat party which passed this bill and which is now enforcing it. He has also claimed many Republicans. I will choose wisely this voting year. Non negotiables: life from conception til natural death, chastity and marriage between one man and one woman, no cloning, no embryonic stem cell research, no euthanasia. All these have crept into law now, and many candidates thus support it. They won’t have my vote.
Yes, but practically speaking, the litmus test must be to elect candidates who will close the border and stop the tsunami of future Democratic party voters who will swamp any remnants of the right to life into oblivion forever.
RP & R, Please don’t forget about the all important ‘Supreme Court Appointments’ that are waiting in the future. That will affect 10, 20 even 30+ years of court cases coming down the road. Many of the issues you mentioned RP will be heard by the next Justices of the Supreme Court. R makes a good point. No border, no country. Love new people here (my grandparents) but it MUST be thru ‘legal means’ to keep everybody (them and us) safe, healthy and viable. Look at Europe. Too many, too fast = train wreck for everybody which actually hurts the new people as well as those already here. Common sense.
It would be hard to say that the LA City Attorney doesn’t have an agenda! On the other hand, we elect/appoint City Attorneys to enforce all the laws, not just the ones we like. The solution, of course, is to elect people to the legislature in Sacramento who will reverse the law. We Catholics, and others of similar beliefs, will have a hard time finding candidates of that sort. Try to find a person under 35 who doesn’t believe in a woman’s right to choose;nearly impossible. Try to find a person under 35 that doesn’t believe that teaching anti-abortion isn’t a hate crime. We have gotten to the point where calling someone a man or a woman is no longer PC.
Interesting. L.A. has major gang problems, drug trafficking, human trafficking, rampant prostitution and criminal violence and yet, the good DA sees pro-life family clinics as a BIG problem worthy of his time and attention! How absurd and ridiculous!
let me get the spelling on that – Mike “führer?”
Yes, he does have a mustache like Hitler, too, but he is of Jewish descent. It just puzzles me that so many Jewish people after the Holocaust are so “gung ho” for abortion, especially since it kills so many in their own population and in the population of others.
The Democrat party of today is not the Democrat party of 50 years ago, JFK would be considered a conservative Republican by todays standards, the Democrats today are hard core Marxist-Leninist radical anti-American anti-police anti-military anti Christian and love abortion for some sick reason. And they love ISLAM why you may ask? Because both of these groups want the downfall of Western civilization and for that reason they need each other.
Satan is at the helm (for now). Catholics have let the laws advance to the point where now choosing to challenge them will seem contrary to the new social contract, where sexual freedom is about the zenith in terms of sacredness (which makes Nancy Pelosi sound pretty smart when she referred to abortion rights as “sacred ground”). The Church, led by the feckless bishops and cardinals of recent vintage, seems to smile in adoration to all of this, too. (Oh, come on, you do not really believe that many, if any, bishops actually oppose abortion and any type of sexual activity–hahaha.) Very little time left for the institutional Church, very little.
Bob One: “Try to find a person under 35 who doesn’t believe in a woman’s right to choose;nearly impossible. Try to find a person under 35 that doesn’t believe that teaching anti-abortion isn’t a hate crime.” Have you ever attended or seen pictures of the Annual San Francisco Walk for Life ((55,000+) or the March for Life in Wash., DC (500,000)? They are filled with young people — teens, 20’s — and younger. They get it. They generations are being destroyed.
Peggy, good point! But is still only a few out of millions.
According to Gallup as reported by the Boston Globe in 2015: “By 2010, 18-to-29-year-olds had become more pro-life than their parents — only 24 percent still wanted to keep abortion legal in all cases. More than any other age cohort, in fact, young adults are now the most likely to think abortion should be illegal in all circumstances.”
What’s happening with legal action to declare the law unconstitutional?
why would the law be unconstitutional?
Federal courts in Maryland and New York have stuck down as unconstitutional all or parts of similar laws because they violate the First Amendment by imposing “forced speech” on pregnancy centers.
please provide a link. I don’t think you are correct.
https://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/press-release-details/total-victory-against-md–county-s–forced-speech–law-for-pregnancy-centers
It probably took less time to look up than for you to ask for a link.
Our PINO’s legacy: Forced – speech @ ‘life’ pregnancy centers; Forced – birth control @ Christian businesses; Forced – transgender bath/locker/changing room rules @ public/Christian schools, etc; Forced – illegal immigration @ borders; Forced – women’s health rights @ Catholic hospitals; & more. Each ‘order’ chips away @ freedoms. How little remains? How soon before we no longer enjoy the religious liberties we deserve, that made this country? Are there enough people in the pews paying attention to these matters? Hope for Nov. seems dimmed. Even WITH a big change in leadership, it would take ‘lifetimes’ to reverse our current ‘state of sin’. We are done. It is finished.
continued………of course everything is possible with God. But God is being ignored (at best) and systematically removed from the public square (at worst) in America and especially by our government. Take government money and you are owned by the government. Maybe it would help if Catholic charities and agencies and schools would STOP taking government money?
This person is a communist representing communist ideas.
McCarthy was right.
No need for Juries – Just Program the AI to produce PC Results:”
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