A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction blocking a week-old Illinois law authorizing prosecution of “limited services” crisis pregnancy centers for allegedly duping women to believe they could get abortion services at the pro-life centers.
The Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act, passed by the state legislature in May and signed into law July 27 by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, would levy civil penalties of up to $50,000 per incident.
The lawsuit said the law “targets life-affirming organizations with the threat of investigations, subpoenas, civil liability, and even dissolution for expressing sincere religious beliefs, should the attorney general or a private citizen who disagrees with those religious views determine that such expressions are deceptive or misleading.”
“Across the nation, pregnancy help ministries are being discriminated against by laws that target their life-affirming work,” Mr. Breen said in the statement. “The injunction granted today sends a strong, clear message to the country that the First Amendment protects pro-life speech.” Mr. Raoul took credit for the bill’s passage and earlier said he’d “witnessed deceptive crisis pregnancy center tactics firsthand on a visit to tour a Planned Parenthood health center in Illinois.” He did not respond to several requests for comment about the temporary injunction.
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