How to deed restrict your business property to keep it abortion-free forever
Recall the Livonia, Michigan, pro-life businessman who bought an abortion clinic property earlier this month and then banned it from being sold to an abortionist.
If you own business property, you, too, can deed restrict it so it can never be sold to an abortion business. From Dave Theisen at Real Estate for Life comes three simple steps:
1. Identify the property’s legal address.
2. Prepare the language best suited for the community you are in.* (Example: “No chemical or surgical abortions may be referred from this property or performed on this property [legal address] into perpetuity.”)
3. Incorporate the concepts: This restriction shall run with the land, and the deed restriction is for the benefit of the local community.
*It is important to have the restriction prepared by an attorney to be efficacious and to be in recordable form for the county Register of Deeds. Always consult an attorney, as practices vary from region to region.
Back to that Livonia property, pro-abortion vandals have since defaced the “For Lease” sign, which may have given them a laugh, but it doesn’t change the deed restriction…
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I love this. Using obscure laws and ordinances to put a stumbling block in front of the child-killing industry.
As a city planner, I give this blog post two thumbs up!!!
So much for property rights. Antiabortion zealots are so hypocritical.
Now, the same can be done to make the property fake clinic proof, too.
Come on Jim,
We all know the American people wholeheartedly support abortion so this isn’t going to be a problem. Like the argument that no one is forced to have an abortion, no one is forced to deed restrict their property from being sold for abortion business.
You are the great advocates of choice, are you not?
Thanks for the Deed Restriction idea. Not surprised that it comes from Real Estate for Life. They donate approx. $1,000 to the ProLife Group of your choice when you use one of their Realtors.
I have a deed on a house that reads, “No Catholic may ever own this land.”
True story. It was in the county register.
Jim,
When was this written? Today, would discrimination such as this on the basis of race, religion, or ethnicity be legal?
Just asking.
“I have a deed on a house that reads, ‘No Catholic may ever own this land.'”
Great, Jim. I’m an atheist. Can I buy it and use it for a secularly-based Crisis Pregnancy Center?
Oh Jim
I’m sure women everywhere are glad you support abortion so you can keep them child free and sexually available.
But there is nothing hypocritical in being pro life and restricting private property rights so you can’t slaughter children there. Look up the definition of hypocritical next time you post.
If this was ever challenged in the courts I think it unlikely to stand, depending on how activist the courts feel on that day.
I believe the post above about no catholic may purchase this property. My grandfather had a store and wanted to buy the empty place next door to expand his business. The owner would not sell to him because he was catholic. My grandfather found another person willing to buy the empty store from the bigot and then sell it to him. It actually happened and my grandfather got the store and was able to expand. I just wish I could have seen the look on the other guys face!
A deed restriction based upon a person’s religion will not be upheld today by the courts. Neither will a deed restricting sale of the property to persons of a particular race. These deed restrictions have been outlawed on the basis of discrimination and are no longer valid.
There is nothing illegal about placing a deed restriction on the use of your property. One may prohibit, for example, pig farms or abortion clinics. It may cause the value of your property to diminish because it has a restriction, but that is your choice.
rule against perpetuities
“rule against perpetuities”
Could you elaborate?
I don’t understand this, once it’s legally changed hands can’t the new owner then just change the incorporation just like you can change the incorporation of the deed? It doesn’t seem like there is any way to possiblely enforce this ‘in perpetuity’, only to whom you sell it to.