New Africa / Shutterstock.com PETITION: Demand Planned Parenthood return $80M improperly taken from coronavirus emergency fund! Sign the petition here. June 8, 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York has upheld most of a law allowing the Empire State to force pro-life organizations to employ workers who oppose their religious values and pro-life mission while throwing out one provision of the law as compelling speech. The law forbids New York employers from engaging in “discrimination” or “retaliatory personnel action” against employees on the basis of their “reproductive health decision-making,” or from requiring them to sign any “document which purports to deny an employee the right to make their own reproductive health care decisions.” It contains no religious exemption. Last fall, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) took up the case on behalf of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), First Bible Baptist Church in Hilton, and the pro-life pregnancy care service CompassCare, arguing that the law “intentionally and by design sacrifices the associational, speech, and religious freedom of employers in New York State” to “the government’s desire to promote abortion rights.” On June 5, the district court ruled against […]
