NEW YORK, June 3, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a pro-life group by granting them a rehearing and re-instating a district court decision allowing the pro-lifers to continue to gather outside an abortion facility and offer prayerful support to mothers.
The Thomas More Society has been representing the group — consisting of members of Brooklyn’s [email protected], including Pastor Kenneth Griepp — since 2017, when former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a legal case against 13 pro-lifers who were engaging in peaceful pro-life activity and witness outside an abortion facility in New York.
Schneiderman accused the group of harassing mothers who were going into the abortion clinic, claiming that the group had issued threats and had been violent towards women going into the facility. He sought to establish a 16-foot buffer zone around the business, and to put an end to the weekly pro-life vigil, which he described as “a weekly pattern of threatening, obstructive and violent activity by a network of anti-abortion protestors at Choices Women’s Medical Center in Jamaica, New York.”
He also sought compensatory damages and additional financial penalties against the pro-lifers.
The Thomas More Society’s Martin Cannon
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