For years, Democratic state legislators have attempted to regulate crisis pregnancy centers, which reproductive health rights groups say spread misinformation and misrepresent themselves to vulnerable women in search of resources, including abortion care.
, conservative justices sided with claims from such centers, which are frequently affiliated with religious or faith-based institutions, that the law likely violated their First Amendment rights because it forced them to make statements they said contradicted their beliefs.
But after a CPC sued over the law last year, the state’s Democratic attorney general disclosed in January that his officeany such centers in the state, prompting the center to drop its case and publicize that it would continue to operate. “At this point, the majority of those sort of impactful bills — that were aimed at limiting CPC disinformation or requiring disclosure of the services provided — have been watched by courts in a way that has had quite a chilling effect on other states,” Wells said.
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