Request to Paint Anti-Abortion Slogan on D.C. City Street Denied

Anti-abortion demonstrators’ plan to paint a Washington street in front of a Planned Parenthood facility with a “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter” slogan ran into a snag Friday, as a federal district court refused to block the city from enforcing its antidefacement ordinance against them.

Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America didn’t show they’re likely to win on their claim that the city will be engaging in viewpoint- or content-based discrimination in violation of their free speech rights if it enforces the Anti-Intimidation and Defacing of Public or Private Property Criminal Penalty Act against them during a planned ...