MINNEAPOLIS — A Christian group known for picketing Planned Parenthood and taking out anti-abortion rights billboards is suing the city of Minneapolis over a new law that prohibits people from blocking the entrances and driveways of abortion clinics.
"The Minneapolis ordinance … was a deliberate attempt to stifle Pro-Life Action Ministries' sidewalk outreach outside of Planned Parenthood," said lawyer Erick Kaardal of the Thomas More Society, a conservative Chicago law firm. "Minneapolis City Councilmember Lisa Goodman ... made it publicly known that the enactment of Chapter 405 was a 'creative decision' while she awaits a codifying of abortion rights in Minnesota and nationwide, stating, 'Never in my 25 years of being here have I ever gotten to do something as meaningful in the reproductive rights movement.'"
Goodman, who championed the Minneapolis ordinance, recently lost her mother and was not available to respond Wednesday.
