Oakland Approves Truth-In-Advertising Legislation Aimed At Pregnancy Centers
Critics of the centers say they pay Google for keyword services that bring those looking for abortion information to their websites, which don't offer information on abortion.
Oakland Tribune:
Oakland Takes A Stand For Abortion Rights
Anti-abortion organizations will have to be straightforward about what their "crisis pregnancy centers" are offering under terms of truth-in-advertising legislation passed unanimously by the City Council. ...San Francisco passed a similar ordinance in 2011. Last year, U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong upheld the legislation in response to a challenge brought by nonprofit clinic owner First Resort. Armstrong ruled that false advertising is not protected speech under the First Amendment and that the clinic could still counsel patients and express its opinions. (Hedin, 7/28)