Corporate media are obsessed with covering their pages with articles boosting the success of deceptive abortion ballot measures in states like Nevada. Yet, the press’ attempt to convince Americans that abortion activists are the only ones gaining ground in the fight over unborn babies falls apart in the face of two pro-life decisions from two separate state supreme courts this week.
In Wisconsin, the state supreme court justices unanimously ruled to vacate a civil harassment injunction brought against pro-life activist Brian Aish by abortion facility staffer Nancy Kindschy because it violated the protestor’s First Amendment right to share his Christian and pro-life beliefs.
Aish had a long history of “holding up signs quoting Bible verses” and “preaching” about repentance to anyone entering or exiting abortion facilities. A circuit court and appeals court agreed that this constituted harassment and issued a four-year injunction “which prohibited Aish from speaking to Kindschy, or going to her residence ‘or any other premises
temporarily occupied by [Kindschy].’”
The state supreme court, however, decided “the injunction is a content-based restriction on Aish’s speech and that it fails to satisfy strict scrutiny.”
“Here, the injunction orders Aish to avoid any location Kindschy might be, effectively prohibiting Aish from speaking not just to Kindschy, but to others at the clinic or anywhere else that she might be. In doing so, the injunction burdens significantly more speech than is necessary to protect individual privacy, freedom of movement to and from work, and freedom from fear of death. Therefore, it cannot
