Wed Sep 28, 2022 – 6:00 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard arguments today brought by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on behalf of two pro-life organizations that argue they were illegally stopped from chalking or painting a pro-life message on the sidewalk or streets of Washington, D.C. under uneven enforcement of a city vandalism ordinance.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser allowed artists to paint “Black Lives Matter” on a public street on June 5, 2020 in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers in May 2020. The city also allowed activists to paint “defund the police” that summer.
The case, The Frederick Douglass Foundation v. District of Columbia, comes two years after D.C. police arrested activists with Students for Life of America for chalking “Black Preborn Lives Matter” outside a Planned Parenthood on August 1, 2020. The charges were later dropped.
The only difference between D.C.’s approval of the BLM mural and its rejection of the pro-life message was the word “preborn,” ADF attorney Erin Hawley argued Wednesday.
“The police gave plaintiffs verbal permission to chalk their message,” Hawley argued in front of
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