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Pro-life centers forced to hire pro-abortion staffers?

A new Illinois law prevents pro-life organizations from hiring based on their pro-life views, meaning they could be forced instead to hire abortion advocates whose views violate their core religious beliefs.

Now, a pro-life pregnancy resource center that wants to hire a nurse to counsel women facing unplanned pregnancies and a Catholic diocese are challenging the law in federal court as a First Amendment violation.

Attorneys from the Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom are representing The Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford and the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday against Illinois Department of Human Rights Director James Bennett and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul. The complaint asks the court to block enforcement of the law.

The law in question, the Illinois Human Rights Act, was amended as of Jan. 1 to prohibit discrimination based on a person’s “reproductive health decisions,” including abortion, contraception, and fertility treatments. Under the new amendment, employers may not discipline or refuse to hire employees based on such reproductive health decisions and may not engage in “unwelcome” or “offensive” speech and conduct in the workplace regarding reproductive health care.

The law provides no religious exemption for pro-life organizations evaluating employees on reproductive matters. This is a violation of the organizations’ First Amendment rights of association,