Thu Nov 18, 2021 – 6:35 pm EST
BROOKLYN, New York (LifeSiteNews) — On Tuesday, pro-life activists emerged victorious from a 4 1/2-year legal battle with the State of New York after the state dropped false charges of threats and violence.
In June 2017, pro-life sidewalk counselors who assemble outside an abortion facility in Queens, New York weekly “to peacefully offer information and alternatives since 2012” “were falsely accused by former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of harassing women who were going into the abortion facility,” the Thomas More Society explained in its summary of the case.
Thomas More Society senior counsel Stephen Crampton told how Schneiderman “relentlessly litigated the case, using hidden cameras, undercover investigators, and even a fake Facebook account posing as the page of a pro-life advocate, to try to find evidence of wrongdoing,” Tom Ciesielka, president of TC Public Relations, reported.
Thomas More Society noted that “New York has an existing Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances law which is intended to prevent actual, intentional interference with access to a clinic by means of force, threats, or physical obstruction.”
By contrast, “peaceful pro-life activity is specifically protected,” and the Thomas More Society argued that Schneiderman’s lawsuit was in fact an “assault” on pro-life
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