Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc. v. Los Angeles County Sheriff Department

I. BACKGROUND

A. Facts

Plaintiff Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (Bio-Ethical Reform) is a non-profit organization whose main purpose is to promote “prenatal justice and the right to life for the unborn, the disabled, the infirm, the aged, and all vulnerable peoples through education and the development of innovative educational programs.” One of the educational programs is called the “Reproductive Choice Campaign.” With this cam- paign, Bio-Ethical Reform seeks to “expose as many people as possible to the reality of abortion” by displaying large, graphic photographs of first-term aborted fetuses on the sides of trucks. The trucks often drive on surface streets and free- ways, but Bio-Ethical Reform employees and volunteers sometimes take the trucks to specified places to target particu- lar audiences. 7990 CENTER FOR BIO-ETHICAL v. L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF Middle school and high school students are a common tar- get audience. Bio-Ethical Reform conducts its campaign at such schools because it believes its message will discourage teenage abortions. Bio-Ethical Reform also believes that “stu- dents who are old enough to have an abortion are old enough to see one.” Bio-Ethical…