{"id":1996219,"date":"2023-08-10T02:33:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-calls-illinois-law-targeting-pro-life-pregnancy-counseling-stupid\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T02:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:34:22","slug":"federal-judge-calls-illinois-law-targeting-pro-life-pregnancy-counseling-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-calls-illinois-law-targeting-pro-life-pregnancy-counseling-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge criticizes Illinois law targeting pro-life pregnancy counseling as &#8216;stupid&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-calls-illinois-law-targeting-pro-life-pregnancy-counseling-stupid%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=1996219&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>A Federal Judge Slams\u200b &#8220;Stupid&#8221; Illinois Law Targeting Maternal\u200b Health Care Centers<\/h2>\n<p>A recent\u200b Illinois law\u2062 has come under fire from\u200d a federal judge who\u200c has deemed it &#8220;stupid&#8221; and detrimental to\u2062 the rights of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-halts-illinois-law-targeting-pregnancy-counseling-centers\/\" title=\"Federal Judge Halts Illinois Law Targeting Pregnancy Counseling Centers\">maternal health care centers<\/a> and sidewalk counselors. \u200cThis controversial legislation has faced a setback as Judge Iain D. Johnston of the Western Division of \u2063the U.S.\u200d District Court for the Northern\u200d District of Illinois blocked its \u200denforcement.<\/p>\n<h3>Judge&#8217;s\u2063 Scathing Critique<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Stupid&#8221; is the word used by Judge Johnston to describe\u200b the Illinois law in his formal \u200cpreliminary injunction order (pdf).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This scathing critique highlights the judge&#8217;s strong disapproval of the legislation, which aims\u200d to restrict the expression of \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/subverts-the-right-and-duty-of-parents-bowser-dc-sued-for-allowing-children-to-get-vaccinated-without-parental-consent\/\" title=\"\u2018Subverts The Right And Duty Of Parents\u2019: Bowser, DC Sued For Allowing Children To Get Vaccinated Without Parental Consent\">pro-life messages<\/a> by \u200dthose working in \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-calls-illinois-law-targeting-pro-life-pregnancy-counseling-stupid\/\" title=\"Federal judge criticizes Illinois law targeting pro-life pregnancy counseling as 'stupid'.\">maternal health \u200dcare centers<\/a> and offering support on \u200csidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>By blocking the enforcement of this \u200claw, Judge Johnston \u2062has taken a\u2064 stand to protect the \u2062rights \u200bof\u200d these individuals and centers to freely express their pro-life beliefs \u2063and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-vulnerable-congressman-who-helped-spark-an-immigration-crisis-in-maine\/\" title=\"Meet the Vulnerable Congressman Who Helped Spark an Immigration Crisis in Maine\">provide essential care<\/a> to \u200bexpectant \u2062mothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Illinois criticized a recent law as &#8220;stupid&#8221; for targeting maternal health care centers and pro-life sidewalk counselors. 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Johnston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois made the comment while blocking enforcement of the statute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":1996220,"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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/1996219","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\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}