Wed Jun 29, 2022 – 5:49 pm EDT
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(LifeSiteNews) – One of the most influential pro-life activists in the U.S. is taking a defamation lawsuit triggered by his calling abortion “murder” to the Texas Supreme Court, now with fresh optimism brought on by the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Mark Lee Dickson, director of Right to Life for East Texas and founder of the growing Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative, was accused by abortion funds of defamation after he called them “criminal” groups that assist in the crime of “murder.”
The legal battle began when Dickson’s Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative, now encompassing 44 cities in Texas and a few cities outside the state, included ordinances that declared abortion providers and fund groups to be “criminal organizations.”
While an initial lawsuit taking issue with this language was dropped after the cities removed their ordinances’ references to criminality, three abortion funds have pushed forward with new lawsuits against Dickson for what they consider to be “defamatory” comments.
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