CNSNews.com: A federal judge in Florida has ordered the City of Fort Meyers to stop enforcing an ordinance that threatened pro-life activists with arrest and fines every time they appeared on the sidewalk in front of the city's only abortion clinic.
"We are pleased that our clients and other pro-life advocates will no longer have their First Amendment rights violated in Fort Myers," said Edward L. White III, the Thomas More Law Center attorney who handled the case.
White said the sidewalk counselors, as they call themselves, are now free to pray and pass out literature "without unconstitutional restriction, as they try to save the lives of unborn children."
The lawsuit filed by the Thomas More Law Center targeted a Fort Myers city ordinance requiring pro-life advocates to get a permit before more than two of them could gather outside the Fort Myers Women's Health Clinic.
