Charges leveled against a Chicago pro-lifer jailed for violating the city's bubble zone law at abortion clinics have been dismissed for a third time. A legal expert believes that's evidence the law needs to be erased from the books.
The bubble zone specifies a distance pro-life counselors must stay away from people entering an abortion clinic. Attorney Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society tells OneNewsNow that 64-year-old grandmother Anna Marie Mesia was the most recent person arrested for violating the law, this time at a north side late-term abortion clinic.
"And in this particular case, Anna Marie was not in the area where the bubble zone even applies," he says. "But that did not stop the abortion facility employees from filing the complaint, calling 9-1-1 as if it were an actual emergency, and it didn't stop the Chicago police from arresting her and booking her."
Prosecutors could not prove their case so the court had little choice but to dismiss it, and that was without even having all the evidence brought into court.
"These charges in particular were also dismissed because the state said that the abortion clinic refused to allow its employees to testify to the court and refused to answer to the subpoena that we were given leave to serve on them to get the surveillance video and the pictures of the alleged incident," Breen adds.
Breen says the video and pictures would have proven Mesia was not violating the law.
Three times pro-lifers have been arrested under the bubble zone ordinance -- and three times the charges went nowhere. Breen says police need to stop enforcing the law, as it is one that needs to be repealed.
Source: OneNewsNow
