Obama’s about FACE on unconstitutional abortion law

September 7, 2011 12:29


??It’s abortion absolutism. Everything else — free assembly, free speech, conscience protection, and his party’s other interests — they all take a back seat to protecting abortion.

by Timothy P. Carney at Washington Examiner

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In 1994, abortion-lobby champion Ted Kennedy passed the Free Access to Clinics Act (FACE), which imposes stricter limitations on peaceful protests of abortion clinics than any other peaceful protest.

This law, which strikes me as pretty darn unconstitutional, has never really been enforced. Tom McClusky at the Family Research Council says the decision to not enforce it was a “gentleman’s agreement”: “The story I normally got from Justice Department, Hill and real world lawyers on both sides of the aisle was that everyone understood the law was unconstitutional….”

But now, NPR reports, Obama is deciding to crack down on those protesting, conducting sidewalk counseling, or even praying for the mothers and their babies.

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