Maryland Judge Rules For Pro-Life Advocates Shackled, Strip-Searched by Police

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
June 4, 2009

Bel Air, MD (LifeNews.com) -- A federal judge in Maryland has sided with pro-life advocates who have filed a lawsuit against State Police, Harford County, and the city of Bel Air. The case involves an Alliance Defense Fund lawsuit on behalf of pro-life women who were shackled and strip searched after peacefully protesting abortion in Maryland.

The incident involves a group of pro-life advocates who, in August 2008, were arrested without warning by Hartford County State Troopers during their multi-city protest featuring abortions signs.

At least a dozen police officers arrived in more than seven marked vehicles and then arrested, jailed, shackled, and strip searched them. the rest