Lawsuit filed by Vermont CPC over false advertising law
Antiabortion activists claim it violates First and Fourteenth Amendment rights
The VTDigger in Montpelier, Vermont, reported that several crisis pregnancy centers will sue the state over its newly passed law that subjects them to preexisting false and misleading advertising statutes.
Aspire Now, a pregnancy center located in Williston, is one plaintiff. The others are Branche Pregnancy Resource Center, which is located in Brattleboro, and the National Institute for Family and Life Advocates, a national antiabortion nonprofit.
Though most of my readers know what a crisis pregnancy center is, an explanation for other younger men and women who don’t know may be useful. CPCs, as they are known in short, present themselves as abortion providers to unsuspecting women who visit the facilities. While there, staff use surreptitious methods to dissuade women from getting an abortion.
The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont. It charges the law violates the CPC operators’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
