Vindication for Pine: Dept. of Justice Pays for Wrongful Suit Against Pro-Life Sidewalk Counselor

[Dawn Marie]

DOJ Pays for Wrongful Suit Against Pro-Life Sidewalk Counselor

A pro-life sidewalk counselor has been vindicated.

Not only has the Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped its appeal in Holder v. Pine against pro-life sidewalk counselor Mary “Susan” Pine, the government has agreed to pay $120,000 for the improper lawsuit.

The DOJ had unsuccessfully sought thousands of dollars in fines against Pine, as well as a permanent injunction banning her from counseling women on the public sidewalk outside the Presidential Women’s Center (PWC) abortion clinic.

After 18 months of litigation, the DOJ’s case was thrown out of federal court, and the department was chastised for filing a case with no evidence.

This past December, in the midst of the case, Pine actually counseled a woman outside of PWC and convinced her not to have an abortion, thus saving the life of the child and possibly the mother as well. Her email to Liberty Counsel read, “We saved a life today.”

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