The following comes from a March 15 Sacramento Bee article by Sammy Caiola:
Two Sacramento pregnancy service centers that oppose abortion are not complying with a state law requiring they put up signs informing patients about California’s abortion services, according to an investigation carried out by a San Francisco-based abortion rights advocacy group.
Sacramento Life Center and Alternatives Pregnancy Center were the first two centers in the state found by NARAL Pro-Choice California to be allegedly violating Assembly Bill 775, a 2015 law authored by Democratic Assembly members David Chiu, D-San Francisco, and Autumn Burke, D-Marina Del Rey.
The law is aimed at crisis pregnancy centers, or faith-based organizations that provide pregnancy counseling to women, as well as ultrasounds, sexually transmitted disease counseling, community resource referrals and other services.
The new law, which went into effect on January 1, requires all clinics whose primary purpose is providing family planning or pregnancy-related services to post an 8 1/2 -by-11-inch sheet of paper with 22-point type “in a conspicuous place” notifying women of available public services. Clinics also have the option to provide a printed or digital notice to each client at the time of arrival.
“It’s important that we start holding these anti-choice organizations responsible,” said NARAL’s director Amy Everitt. “They are wreaking havoc and harm all across our country.”
Marie Leatherby, executive director of the Sacramento Life Center, said no one has come to enforce the new law at her clinic, and she will abide by the policy only if she is absolutely compelled to.
“It does go against what we’re all about,” Leatherby said. “Our mission is about helping women carry their children to term. So we’re just waiting to see how the lawsuit plays out.”
Matt Bowman, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, said the law “forces pro-life centers to recite the government’s message.”
“These centers are faced with an impossible choice – either refer women to have a child killed or face punishment by the state of California,” he said.
In the meantime, NARAL and other abortion rights groups are gathering signatures from people who want the required information posted.
“We have really progressive, really fabulous laws,” Everitt said. “But if they aren’t enforced, they don’t mean anything. And the Reproductive FACT Act is far too important not to be enforced.”
Pro-Life centers can post this notice: ” By order of Satan we state, we do not do referrals for abortions”.
In this case the pro life centers should have pictures and videos of what a real abortion does. Of course the pro aborts will lie and say the pro life people are liars since these kinds of pictures have been on the web and in books in libraries such books and computers began.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
I really ruined that last post. The second sentence should read: “Of course the pro aborts will lie and say the pro life people are liars, even though these kinds of pictures and videos about real abortions have been in books in libraries, book stores and on computers since books and computers were first used. They are found in medical libraries for physicians on surgery. also.
I say comply with the State law and post the required notice in all pro-life pregnancy centers ***** Just as soon as Planned Parenthood and other infanticide centers post a notice of equal size in a very conspicuous place reminding women that they do not have to kill their babies and that loving, non-judgmental help is available to them and to their unborn child and giving the address and phone number of the nearest pro=life center!
Thank you, Mary Jo Gretsinger. Your post was worded far better than mine, but sometimes people really do need to see pictures of abortions to change ones mind. I almost fell for the idea that the growing baby was just a blob until a pro life group showed me what a child actually looks like at different stages of development and what an abortion actually does to it. After that there was no denying it was a human baby.