
Pro-life activist sues to end anti-protest zone around abortion clinics: 'unconstitutional'
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A pro-life activist in Denver filed a lawsuit challenging state and local laws that prohibit counseling women within 100 feet of abortion clinics, which she argues is unconstitutional.
"The basic idea is that free speech means the government can't squash or silence messages it doesn't like; it can't punish people who voice those messages," Roger Byron, lead counsel in Faustin's case, told Fox News Digital. Jon Brown is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to jon.brown@fox.com.
"That kind of government action is blatantly unconstitutional. The whole point of the First Amendment is to prevent stuff like that. And yet, what we have here in Colorado and Denver is a law and an ordinance that does just that," said Byron, who is representing Faustin on behalf of the Plano-based nonprofit First Liberty Institute.