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“First it was kind of a shock — we didn’t realize how hated we were, and going in there, how despised we were,” Marie Leatherby, who has led a pro-life pregnancy center in California’s capital for the past 13 years, told CNA over the phone.
Leatherby, the executive director of the Sacramento Life Center, found herself in the middle of a legislative and legal battle over the free speech rights of pro-life pregnancy centers during Vice President Kamala Harris’ tenure as attorney general of California.
From 2015 through mid-2018, Leatherby and others who ran pregnancy resource centers fought against a state law that forced those pregnancy centers to display notices that include information about where women could obtain an abortion.
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Leatherby, the executive director of the Sacramento Life Center, found herself in the middle of a legislative and legal battle over the free speech rights of pro-life pregnancy centers during Vice President Kamala Harris’ tenure as attorney general of California.
From 2015 through mid-2018, Leatherby and others who ran pregnancy resource centers fought against a state law that forced those pregnancy centers to display notices that include information about where women could obtain an abortion.
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How Kamala Harris targeted pro-life pregnancy centers in California
From 2015 through mid-2018, the centers fought against a state law that forced them to display notices that include information about where to obtain an abortion.