Court rules pro-life group owes nearly $1 million in fines f

null / Credit: Chodyra Mike 1/Shutterstock.Denver, Colo., Feb 7, 2023 / 12:23 pm (CNA).A Planned Parenthood affiliate has won a legal judgment of almost $1 million against a pro-life group that gathered outside of a Spokane abortion clinic.The group, which calls itself the Church at Planned Parenthood, must pay $110,000 in civil damages to Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho and another $850,000 in legal fees to the abortion provider, The Spokesman-Review newspaper reported Feb. 3.A Spokane County judge ruled in December that the church repeatedly violated state law by "willfully or recklessly" disrupting the normal functioning of a health care facility, including by making noise that "unreasonably disturbs the peace within the facility."Judge Tim Fennessy of Spokane County Superior Court agreed with Planned Parenthood's evidence that the church held 22 services in violation of state law and fined the church $5,000 for each day of a violation. He agreed tha...

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