Tue Oct 12, 2021 – 1:09 pm EDTTue Oct 12, 2021 – 1:10 pm EDT
CALIFORNIA (LifeSiteNews) Attorneys from a pro-life nonprofit have filed a federal lawsuit to stop a new California law that prohibits protests and sharing information outside of any place that offers vaccines, including abortion centers.
The October 11 motion for a temporary restraining order from Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF) seeks to stop Senate Bill 742, signed by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom on October 8.
The legislation makes it illegal “for a person to knowingly approach a person or an occupied vehicle at a vaccination site, as specified, for the purpose of obstructing, injuring, harassing, intimidating, or interfering with, as defined, that person or vehicle occupant.”
Vaccination sites includes “the physical location where vaccination services are provided, including, but not limited to, a hospital, physician’s office, clinic, or any retail space or pop-up location made available for large-scale vaccination services.”
“Using the threat of COVID as an excuse,” LLDF wrote, “the Legislature enacted a breathtaking restriction on speech that will ban core First Amendment activity in numerous locations across California.”
Its lawsuit details how the Supreme Court has ruled against similar attempts to establish broad “buffer zones” around abortion facilities. Because
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