{"id":1991175,"date":"2023-08-04T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-blocks-illinois-law-targeting-crisis-pregnancy-centers-violation-of-the-first-amendment\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T20:26:14","slug":"federal-judge-blocks-illinois-law-targeting-crisis-pregnancy-centers-violation-of-the-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-blocks-illinois-law-targeting-crisis-pregnancy-centers-violation-of-the-first-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge blocks Illinois law targeting crisis pregnancy centers, citing First Amendment violation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-judge-blocks-illinois-law-targeting-crisis-pregnancy-centers-violation-of-the-first-amendment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1991175&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Federal \u200bJudge Blocks\u200c Illinois \u2062Law Targeting\u2062 Crisis\u200b Pregnancy Centers<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-reveals-his-supreme-court-picks\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy shares his top Supreme Court choices.\">federal \u2064judge<\/a> has issued a block on a new Illinois law\u2064 that specifically targets crisis pregnancy centers in the state, citing a violation of the First Amendment. The law, signed \u200dby Governor J.B. Pritzker, grants the state&#8217;s \u200dattorney general the\u200c power to investigate alleged \u2062consumer fraud cases against crisis pregnancy centers \u2063accused of deceptive practices. However, concerns \u200dhave been raised \u200bthat this \u200dlaw could be used to unfairly\u200b target pro-life\u2064 centers that provide information on the potential links between abortion and breast\u200c cancer or infertility.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The bill is painfully and blatantly \u200ba violation of the First Amendment,&#8221; stated\u200c U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston. &#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt who the Attorney General wants to win\u200c or \u2063lose in the market \u2064place of \u2063ideas, but the government doesn&#8217;t get to \u2063decide \u2063that. The people do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Shortly after \u200bthe law was enacted, the Thomas \u200cMore Society, \u200da conservative law \u2062firm dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-massive-implications-scotus-takes-up-case-involving-high-school-football-coach-fired-for-praying-on-the-field\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 'Massive Implications': SCOTUS Takes Up Case Involving High School Football Coach Fired for Praying on the Field\u00a0\">defending religious liberty<\/a> and free speech, filed a lawsuit challenging the \u2064law. Peter Breen, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-former-ag-barr-initiated-spying-program-on-americans-back-in-1992\/\" title=\"FLASHBACK: Former AG Barr Initiated Spying Program on Americans Back in 1992\">executive vice president<\/a> and head of litigation for the Thomas More Society, expressed \u2063relief after\u200d the \u200bjudge&#8217;s ruling, stating, \u200b&#8221;Free Speech won today in \u2064the Land \u2063of\u200b Lincoln. Pro-life advocates across Illinois \u200bcan breathe \u2064a sigh of relief knowing they \u2062won&#8217;t be pursued for &#8216;misinformation&#8217; by Attorney General\u200b Kwame Raoul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was \u200bfiled on \u200bbehalf of several\u2063 organizations, including the \u2062National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, Women&#8217;s Pregnancy\u2062 Services, Rockford Family Initiative, Relevant Pregnancy\u2063 Options Center,\u200d and the Pro-Life\u200c Action League. \u2063Breen emphasized that pregnancy help ministries across the nation\u2064 are facing discrimination through laws that target their \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-nearly-2-in-3-americans-support-public-funding-for-pregnancy-clinics-democrats-want-to-shut-down\/\" title=\"Poll: Nearly 2 In 3 Americans Support Public Funding For Pregnancy Clinics Democrats Want To \u2018Shut Down\u2019\">life-affirming work<\/a>.\u200b He believes that the\u2062 injunction granted by the court sends a strong message \u2063that the First Amendment \u200bprotects pro-life speech.<\/p>\n<p>If found \u2063guilty of alleged &#8220;misinformation, deceptive practices, or misrepresentation,&#8221; centers could have faced fines\u200d of up to $50,000. The law championed by Governor Pritzker aims to prevent women \u200cin the state from accessing what he considers to be &#8220;misinformation.&#8221; However, the judge&#8217;s ruling has temporarily halted its implementation.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting \u200cthat Vermont has also implemented a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-blocks-illinois-law-targeting-crisis-pregnancy-centers-violation-of-the-first-amendment\/\" title=\"Federal judge blocks Illinois law targeting crisis pregnancy centers, citing First Amendment violation.\">similar law targeting \u2064pro-life pregnancy centers<\/a>, which is \u2062currently being challenged in court.<\/p>\n<h3>Click \u2063here to get the DailyWire+ app<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has halted an Illinois law aimed at crisis pregnancy centers, deeming it a violation of the First Amendment. Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) recently approved the bill, granting the state&#8217;s attorney general the power to probe alleged consumer fraud cases involving these centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1991176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}