Planned Parenthood Can't Hide Behind Law to Spread Its Lies

Over the years Planned Parenthood (PP) & other pro-abortion groups have tried perverting the law to silence its opponents. At the center of several of these cases has been the Pro-Life Action League.

In 1986, the National Organization for Women (NOW) and two abortion clinics in filed a complaint in Federal Court alleging violations of the Sherman-Clayton anti-trust laws against Joseph Scheidler, the Pro-Life Action League and several other defendants. Later they added a complaint under RICO. Eventually the US Supreme Court ruled that RICO couldn't be used in the way NOW wanted.

In 2007 a law suit was started by the League against PP. The 2007 suit says PP of Illinois and its CEO Stephen Trombley engaged in defamatory, libelous and slanderous statements. During the legal battle to stop the construction of a new abortion business, Trombley told one local media outlet that pro-life advocates engage in violence and that was the reason Planned Parenthood kept the new abortion center a secret for so long.

PP objected claiming that they were immune from suit under Illinois’ newly enacted Citizen Participation Act. They asked that the suit be dropped. Wednesday 10 December 2008 Judge Judith Brawka of Kane County Circuit Court issued a ruling holding that those counts should not be dismissed as a matter of law.

PP has a record of thinking it is above the law, that it can say or do anything it wants. Too often law enforcement officials look the other way as has been recently seen in Indiana's letting PP get away with covering up rape. But once in a while, justice is served & PP finds it can't hide. This is 1 of those times.

Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel for the Thomas More Society, who is representing the plaintiffs in the litigation, welcomed the ruling. He said that it “signals that at some point in this case Planned Parenthood is going to have to come to grips with the fact that they lied. Those lies constituted defamatory torts for which Planned Parenthood and Mr. Trombley must be held to account to the plaintiffs, whose good name was illegally trashed for no reason and with malice aforethought.”

He went on to say:“The Citizen Participation Act, also called the Anti-SLAPP Act, is not a license to lie with impunity and ruin someone’s good name for malicious reasons.”

Source: ILLINOIS JUDGE UPHOLDS COUNTS OF SLANDER AND LIBEL AGAINST PLANNED PARENTHOOD

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