Upcoming Supreme Court Battle

Upcoming Supreme Court Battle - Tuesday, March 20, 2018

On March 20, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a very important case involving abortion and free speech. Can the government of California force Christian crisis pregnancy centers to advertise to women they can get free abortions from the state?

The brief of Operation Outcry and The Justice Foundation focused on the unconstitutionality of these onerous, strict advertising requirements for unlicensed, volunteer, Christian based charities. It was prepared and filed on our behalf by Life Legal Defense Fund for which we are grateful. Our brief was joined by Priests for Life as well.

If you are a part of Operation Outcry, you will be before the Court through our Brief. If you are a supporter of The Justice Foundation, your support made it possible to file this brief and you are a part of this case as well. We could not have done it without either one of you. If you are one of the 74,000 Moral Outcry signers as of January 2018, your name is in the brief as one who believes that abortion is a crime against humanity.
You can be "present" in prayer, either physically or spiritually. The Christian Plaintiff in the case is calling for massive Christian prayer presence outside the Supreme Court on the day of Oral Argument. If you can be in DC on March 20, I urge you to join the rally outside the Supreme Court from 9:00 am to noon.

Why is your presence necessary? I believe the short history of the battle over our last defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court will show the importance of mass organized prayer.

The Texas Ambulatory Surgical Center law, HB 2, which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 was first brought up for a vote in the Texas Senate on the last day of the Texas regular session. Senator Wendy Davis became a lion of the pro-choice movement (with a heroic movie to be made about her starring Sandra Bullock glamorizing a woman's right to choose) did a filibuster.

She also invited what I remember as "the mob" to come and assist her in the Texas Capitol. Angry, chanting, bullying, vulgar people came and they won.

The next day I visited the Texas Capitol and the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry at the time, called for a special session.I visited with the Lt. Governor who begged us to bring pro-life people of all walks of life to the Capitol. He said, "We are under siege. We need help. Get everybody here."

And our side responded. The prayer movement united with 24/7 prayer and they showed up. Families and mothers in wheelchairs showed up.

When the other side literally chanted, "Hail, Satan" (it is on YouTube), our side responded with worship songs and rejoicing in the Lord. I have never heard worship being spontaneously sung by large crowds of Christians in the Texas Capitol before or since.

The pro-abortion people came out in more force at night and toward midnight the Department of Public Safety told us to leave the gallery with our women of Operation Outcry and go to a friendly Senator's office and lock the doors. They could not guarantee our safety any more.

This is how nasty the forces of darkness fight.

We did win that night. We won at the 5th Circuit because we had a solid pro-life majority. There was prayer in the courtroom during that oral argument. But when the case got to the U.S. Supreme Court, there was a small amount of prayer and a specialized prayer team who were present.

The pro-abortion mob howled outside, chanting vulgarities.