Pro-Life demonstration in Washington. Via Wikimedia Commons.

The city of Somerville, Massachusetts, voted on March 24 to ban pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) on the basis that they are allegedly misleading because they do not provide or promote abortions. According to Tufts Daily, the ordinance is proactive, as there are currently no PRCs in the city. It was promoted by City Councilor-at-Large Kristen Strezo and co-sponsored by the entire city council. Failure to comply with the ordinance will result in a $300 fine.

Strezo praised the ordinance, saying, “[I’m] very proud of the CPC Ordinance as it can make a direct impact on many residents’ lives, ensuring that my constituents have the dignity to make their own medical decisions based on accurate healthcare information. This shows my continued commitment to the protection of abortion rights, access to reproductive health care, and an individual’s right to make reproductive decisions about one’s own body.”

She also alluded to the oft-repeated — but false — claim that PRCs are somehow misleading to women.

“I’m really upset that I still have to fight as hard as I do for reproductive justice and abortion access,” she said. “We know that — in many cases — [PRCs’] intent is disingenuous, and they often will withhold critical information about pregnancy [and] about abortion. In my capacity as a city councilor, we have to make sure that … accurate information is getting out there.”

Read more at Live Action.

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Fred
Fred
1 year ago

UNCONSTITUTIONAL. REMOVE CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR. BE SHAME IF MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL ALL GO MISSING. THIS IS WAR. TIME FOR THE SCUM BAGS TO PAY.

Gene Ralno
Gene Ralno
1 year ago

Democrat socialists now demonstrate brazen in-your-face domination of legal behavior. This overreach seems to dictate the kind of medical care doctors must offer or face consequences that imperil their professional credentials. Perhaps someone should fix this with greater force.

Trump Lost
Trump Lost
1 year ago

GREAT news!!!!

ConanTheRepublican
ConanTheRepublican
1 year ago
Reply to  Trump Lost

So…clinically-insane, huh?

Christine Davis
Christine Davis
1 year ago
Reply to  Trump Lost

Trump won.

ConanTheRepublican
ConanTheRepublican
1 year ago

Yeah, you ghouls…gotta keep them dead babies comin’ right? Big bucks in this thing.

Christine Davis
Christine Davis
1 year ago

What the **** is “reproductive Justice”? Killing a baby is Justice for careless and promiscuous adults? In this day and age there are more ways to prevent pregnancy than ever before, yet these misguided and deceitful (mostly) women continue to spout that the only freedom is the freedom to kill a baby.

What is misguiding about showing women an ultrasound of their baby before they go through with an abortion? What is misguiding about teaching that it’s a human being growing inside your womb? These are facts, not ideas. This is another case if proving that the real science deniers are democrats and liberals—they don’t understand or believe basic biology.

Will this same argument fly when people want to refuse the vaccine? Will people be given the “dignity to make their own decisions about their health care”? Or will it be like in Illinois, where my daughter in law can’t find a pediatrician who will allow you to make decisions about your own baby’s vaccines? I think democrats are the absolute biggest hypocrites on the planet. They talk out if both sides of their fannies.

Gary
Gary
1 year ago

Kristen Strezo is an evil demonic person who will stand before God one day and be judged for her sins and then thrown into hell. Anyone who kills an innocent child will have an added punishment in hell with the cries of the children they killed in their ears that will never stop. Strezo had better try to enjoy life here on earth because it won’t be long before her joy turns to mourning.

Scotty
Scotty
1 year ago

Goodbye First Amendment.

Stephanie Wilson
Stephanie Wilson
1 year ago

This has to be unconstitutional. Banning A pro life center is viewpoint discrimination!