Do pregnancy centers run by abortion foes have to provide information about abortion?

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Do pregnancy centers run by abortion foes have to provide information about abortion?

BY KATE IRBY

kirby@mcclatchy.com

 

March 19, 2018 05:00 AM

Updated 3 hours 5 minutes ago

WASHINGTON 

About 200 California crisis pregnancy centers run by abortion opponents now offer free goods and services to pregnant women — and state law says they also have to tell them information about abortions.

We shouldn’t have to do that, say center officials.

It’ll be up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide, and Tuesday, the court will hear oral arguments from both sides.

The centers are often affiliated with religious-affiliated groups. California in 2015 enacted a law requiring the centers to post signs in waiting rooms that inform clients of other centers that offer “immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services, prenatal care, and abortion, for eligible women.”