NARAL Gets Another Smack-Down In Baltimore

At first, when I saw this piece in Baltimore's Catholic Review, I thought I was reading old news.  After all, didn't a court already strike down the NARAL-orchestrated Baltimore ordinance that would have ordered pregnancy centers to promote abortion?  Then I looked again at my 2011 post.  At that time, a US District Court struck down the law.  A few days ago, it was the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that upheld the 2009 ruling.  That means that the local pro-aborts must have appealed the District Court ruling only to be spanked again.

Thanks be to God in defending crisis pregnancy centers.  Also thanks is due to the Becket Fund and other lawyers who represented the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns.

Baltimore Anti-Pregnancy Center Law Declared Unconstitutional

From today's Christian Newswire, we read that the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland found the Baltimore City law requiring signage in pro-life pregnancy centers to be unconstitutional.  The case is Archbishop of Baltimore et al. v. City of Baltimore et al.  In his opinion, Judge Garbis stated "the Government cannot, consistent with the First Amendment, require a 'pro-life' pregnancy-related service center to post a sign as would be required by the Ordinance."  He also referred to the ordinance as "viewpoint-based discrimination".

A similar suit is in progress regarding the ordinance as it was enacted in Montgomery County last year.  Today Judge Garbis's ruling bodes well for the Montgomery County pregnancy centers, as well as pregnancy centers all over the country.  We illustrated last year how these ordinances were part of a coordinated campaign by NARAL to stifle the pregnancy centers so that abortionists' blood-money revenue wouldn't dry up.

Fat-Police-Nazis Agents Strike In Baltimore

Remember yesterday's post, where I said we'd better watch out for the Fat Police soon to come our way?  My bad!  They're already here!  In October, the Baltimore City Health Department issued its first "environmental citation for repeat violation".  The hapless violator is ironically named "Healthy Choice".   They've been slapped with a $100 fine and were told that another violation could result in their being shut down.

That's right - shut down!  That means years of hard work and life savings put into a venture can go up in smoke because of an artificially-contrived standard that itself is  in complete violation of the United States Constitution.  What have we come to, in this country?  Yet there are a gazillion of these progressive lemmings in what is laughingly referred to as "The Free State" waxing gleeful and self-righteous about this ever-increasing governmental encroachment into our lives. 

And, as we see in the previous post, they progressives/socialists, led by their Poster Couple, want more!

Boys and girls, can we all say "Sieg Heil!" ?

Baltimore Archdiocese Suing the City Over Its Pregnancy Center Strangulation Bill

On Monday, March 28, the Archdiocese of Baltimore filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Baltimore, rightly claiming that the regulation of pro-life pregnancy centers violates the rights of church members to freedom of speech and religion.  The Archdiocese is doing the proper and courageous thing.  I urge all to read the Baltimore Sun article.

Of course Planned Parenthood would voice "disappointment" with the lawsuit, since they stand to gain financially through the blood of more babies.  We hope that the Archdiocese of Washington will find the courage to do something similar and to take on Montgomery County for its onorous regulations against pro-life pregnancy centers.