"The City of Pittsburg has a constitutional mandate to protect the free speech rights of all people in its jurisdiction, and it has no authority to discriminate on the basis of pro-life viewpoints,"
PITTSBURG, PA - Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief in Bruni v. Pittsburgh in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals regarding sidewalk counselors who are challenging an anti-speech abortion facility buffer zone regulation in the City of Pittsburgh.
The brief was filed on behalf of Liberty Counsel clients Colleen Reilly and Becky Biter who have regularly engaged in peaceful sidewalk counseling in Harrisburg, PA to encourage women to protect the life of their unborn children. Reilly and Biter are also challenging an anti-speech abortion facility buffer zone regulation in the City of Harrisburg. The Harrisburg buffer zone prohibits pro-life speech on public sidewalks up to 70 feet outside a Planned Parenthood abortion center. The ordinance was drafted by Planned Parenthood and passed without any debate or serious discussion by Planned Parenthood's pro-abortion allies on the Harrisburg City Council.