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Idaho Law Against Recording Abuses On Factory Farms Ruled Unconstitutional
onproton writes: An Idaho law that made it illegal to record and document animal abuse or dangerous hygienic practices in agricultural facilities, often referred to as an 'ag-gag' law, was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge on Monday. The judge concluded that the law restricted constitutionally protected free speech, and contradicted "long-established defamation and whistleblowing statutes by punishing employees for publishing true and accurate recordings on matters of public concern." Idaho is just one of several states to pass this type of law, which allow food production facilities to censor some unfavorable forms of speech at their convenience. Under the Idaho statute, an employee that witnessed and recorded an incident, even if it depicted true and life-threatening health or safety violations, could be faced with a year in jail and fines of up to "twice the economic loss the owner suffers." In his ruling (PDF), the judge stated that this was "precisely the type of speech the First Amendment was designed to protect." This decision has raised questions about the constitutionality of these types of laws in other states as well, and it's likely that there will be more legal battles ahead.
Prove it. I don't see how you possibly can.
Unless Planned Parenthood maintains two entirely separate set of books, I don't see how there's any way that you can say that taxpayer money doesn't go to fund abortions when it goes into Planned Parenthood. It all goes to one entity and then they spend money. Which means any funds that go to Planned Parenthood fund abortion, period. I don't care what else they do, they murder children and then sell the parts for profit. You can't possibly expect anyone with a heart to get past that.
Although your name is "evilRhino" so I suppose someone with "evil" in their name would defend such a vile organization.