"The supreme court has said that because they're not only fake clinics, but religious and ideological ones, they can mislead consumers – something basic, non-ideological businesses cannot do," she said. "They are not even required to correct the very confusion that they helped to create."
Brown draws an analogy to the pandemic. Imagine going to a clinic that says it offers vaccines, she said: "They make it look like it's a Covid clinic and they have signs outside saying 'Covid vaccines here.' You fill out a little clipboard, and someone who looks like a nurse comes out and they give you a shot." But it turns out the clinic is run by anti-vaxxers who object to vaccines on religious and moral grounds. The staff isn't licensed; the injection was nothing but sugar water.
Now, imagine if California passed a law forcing those clinics to let people know there are places where they could actually get a free vaccine. "And the supreme court says, 'No, you can't even do that. You're not allowed to correct the misinformation where they think that they're getting the Covid vaccine.' "
"That is just bananas," Brown said. "In any other context, we would say you don't get to do that … because you are defrauding people and that is putting their health at risk."…
