Thu Aug 10, 2023 – 8:40 pm EDT
ROCHESTER, New York (Thomas More Society) — A Rochester, New York, area pro-life advocate has been vindicated in his lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James and the City of Rochester after both the state and city denied him the right to approach an abortion facility to speak in favor of life.
Thomas More Society attorneys represented Jim Havens after he and the sidewalk counseling organization he founded, ROC Love Will End Abortion, were banned from sharing information about abortion and offering life-affirming alternatives outside of a Planned Parenthood abortion facility on University Avenue in Rochester.
The reason given for the violation of his First Amendment rights was a court-ordered injunction issued against different parties in a 2005 court action.
“Of course, when a court enjoins a person in a legal proceeding from engaging in something that is ordinarily legal, it does not prohibit others who were not involved in that legal proceeding from engaging in that activity,” said Thomas Olp, Thomas More Society executive vice president. “When the Thomas More Society pointed that out to the City of Rochester in September 2018, the city agreed and
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