This year, pro-life organizations across the country are poised to fight abortion by defunding Planned Parenthood, restoring necessary safeguards on the abortion pill, challenging free-speech buffer zones, and more.
Pro-life leaders are confident several major cases will win back legal protections for the unborn and cut funding to abortion providers this year.
The largest grassroots pro-life organization in the world, 40 Days for Life, stood up an enhanced legal arm, the Institute of Law and Justice (ILJ), in Aug. 2023 to address increasing aggression against pro-lifers. To date, the ILJ has lost no cases and is taking one to the Supreme Court.
Major cases include 40 Days for Life v. County of Westchester, a suit against Westchester County, New York, to repeal its 100-foot buffer zone against pro-life advocates’ freedom of speech. The county repealed its unlawful ordinance in the face of 40 Days for Life’s lawsuit, knowing that the Supreme Court would end buffer zones nationwide; but 40 Days for Life is advancing the case against the remaining unlawful ordinances attacking free speech.
The Westchester case is one of several challenging buffer zones across the states and going before the Supreme Court; Turco v. City of Englewood, New Jersey and Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois seek to overturn limits on freedom of speech around abortion centers. […]
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