Members of the local government claim preventing pro-life sidewalk counselors from handing literature to people entering into the abortion clinic's parking lot is a matter of safety.
Thomas Wilkin of Pro-Life Action Ministries, which is best known for their daily presence in front of abortion facilities "praying and offering love and support to abortion-bound mothers," tells AFN that curbs their most effective method of reaching people with information on alternatives to abortion and where women can go for real help.
"The way they wrote it is that if we cross the driveway for any reason, we have to continue without stopping to the opposite end of their property, which sometimes means walking another 40 yards to the next intersection without stopping or slowing down, which is kind of absurd," Wilkin details.
He also points out that the way the ordinance is worded could land pro-lifers in the street, which is actually dangerous.
"The funny thing is their main kind of argument that they put forward in the media was that we were creating a dangerous traffic situation by stopping cars in the driveway," Wilkin notes. "First of all, the drivers were freely stopping to talk to us, and second of all, they had no example of cars getting backed up in their video footage they released."
The ministry is already consulting with legal organizations and making plans to take legal action against the ordinance in the near future.
