A pro-life group has filed a lawsuit against an Indiana-based bus company for barring an ad featuring three images of a baby due to it being labeled “political.” Tippecanoe County Right to Life filed the suit against the Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, also called CityBus, on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. TC Right to Life is being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal firm that has won multiple cases at the United States
Supreme Court level. The lawsuit argued that by rejecting the ad, CityBus engaged in “government discrimination against protected speech due to the viewpoint expressed.” “By rejecting TCRTL’s educational ad while accepting other educational ads and ads that are explicitly political, CityBus violated TCRTL’s constitutional rights and discriminated against TCRTL by denying it equal access to CityBus’s advertising forum,” read the complaint. READ MORE
