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Pro-Life Action League's Libel Case Against Planned Parenthood

GENEVA, IL. -- The state's Citizens Participation Act either protects those with legitimate interests in how government works or it's opening a door to full-scale attacks, including false ones, on public officials involved in the process. Those differing perspectives were made clear Friday afternoon during a lengthy hearing in a libel suit filed by the Pro-Life Action League against Planned Parenthood and its president, Steve Trombley, concerning the 2007 debate over the controversial clinic on Aurora's far East Side. The pro-life organization claims Planned Parenthood libeled and defamed its membership -- in a letter to Aurora aldermen and in an ad which ran in The Beacon News -- by associating them with felons and those who commit violent acts at abortion clinics. Planned Parenthood seeks to have the case dismissed because of the Citizens Participation Act's protections granted to those petitioning government.
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Planned Parenthood Wants Citizen Protection From Libel Suit
Planned Parenthood sought immunity from a Kane County defamation lawsuit Friday under a law that protects citizens who speak out about government issues. Attorneys for the organization say the Citizen Participation Act shields Planned Parenthood from the accusations of libel and defamation made by Chicago's Pro-Life Action League in the wake of a bitter fight to open an Aurora clinic where abortions are performed. The league sued Planned Parenthood in October after Aurora's mayor and city council received letters painting the abortion opponents as violent, which the Pro-Life Action League flatly denies, and after an ad with similar claims appeared in a local newspaper. The clinic has since opened.

Posted by Editor at August 23, 2008 03:48 PM