Daily News | Philadelphia was sued this week over a planned $500K donation to an abortion fund
Two Philadelphia residents backed by a conservative law firm sued the city and Mayor Jim Kenney this week, claiming a planned six-figure donation to an abortion fund violates state law.$500,000 to the Abortion Liberation Fund of PA
Kenney’s administration announced earlier this month that the city would disburse the donation to ALF-PA, and the cash would come from the taxpayer-funded general fund. He said in a statement that the donation was one way the city could “support Philadelphians in their fundamental right to bodily autonomy.”
The plaintiffs argue that in using cash from its general fund, Philadelphia can’t prove it didn’t use state or state-appropriated federal funds to make the donation, said Thomas Breth, a western Pennsylvania attorney representing the plaintiffs. Breth is a special counsel for the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, a Catholic law firm that takes cases involving cultural issues like abortion and same-sex marriage.
Common Pleas Judge Joshua Roberts scheduled a hearing for Aug. 31. He wrote the plaintiffs must be prepared to prove the funds in question were state or federal funds.
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