Open Society Condemns Supreme Court Ruling that Denies First Amendment Rights and Hurts Fight against HIV/AIDS
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Monday, June 29, 2020
This policy requires organizations and their foreign affiliates that receive U.S. government funding to fight HIV internationally to explicitly oppose prostitution.
Key Points:
- This policy requires organizations and their foreign affiliates that receive U.S. government funding to fight HIV internationally to explicitly oppose prostitution.
- Alliance for Open Society International, part of the Open Society Foundations, has been involved in a nearly 16-year battle on the constitutionality of the Anti-Prostitution Pledge.
- This is the second time the Supreme Court considered it, and marks a departure from previous rulings that determined the rule was unconstitutional.
- Open Society Foundations, along with several other organizations, were plaintiffs in the case challenging the Pledge, arguing that it amounted to unconstitutional forced speech.