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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJustices Doubtful on Mass Abortion Buffer Zone Law
Source: Associated Press
Justices Doubtful on Mass Abortion Buffer Zone Law
WASHINGTON January 15, 2014 (AP)
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
The Supreme Court seemed likely Wednesday to strike down a Massachusetts law setting a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics.
Liberal and conservative justices alike expressed misgivings about the law during arguments at the high court. They questioned the size of the zone and whether the state could find less restrictive ways of ensuring patient access and safety.
No one has been prosecuted under the 2007 law, which state officials and clinic employees have said has resulted in less congestion outside the clinics.
The court which bars protests on its plaza, but allows them on the public sidewalks last considered abortion clinic protest zones in 2000, when it upheld a Colorado law.
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WASHINGTON January 15, 2014 (AP)
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
The Supreme Court seemed likely Wednesday to strike down a Massachusetts law setting a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics.
Liberal and conservative justices alike expressed misgivings about the law during arguments at the high court. They questioned the size of the zone and whether the state could find less restrictive ways of ensuring patient access and safety.
No one has been prosecuted under the 2007 law, which state officials and clinic employees have said has resulted in less congestion outside the clinics.
The court which bars protests on its plaza, but allows them on the public sidewalks last considered abortion clinic protest zones in 2000, when it upheld a Colorado law.
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Justices Doubtful on Mass Abortion Buffer Zone Law (Original Post)
Eugene
Jan 2014
OP
A very good question because I was under the impression that this issue had already
Bandit
Jan 2014
#4
Watch it, if you say abortion clinics can't be protected from 'free speech', then
sinkingfeeling
Jan 2014
#5
Faux pas
(14,690 posts)1. Why should women have to be
harassed and ridiculed for doing something that is legal? As a country, we are an ass.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)2. Will this also apply to political "free speech zones"
& will those restrictions be done away with, also? If not, why not?
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)3. Kinda my question too.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)4. A very good question because I was under the impression that this issue had already
been addressed by the Extreme Court and that is how "Free Speech Zones" came into being. If there can be no zone of privacy going into clinics then it stands to reason there can be no zone of privacy for political events...
sinkingfeeling
(51,471 posts)5. Watch it, if you say abortion clinics can't be protected from 'free speech', then
neither can politicians. No more 'Free Speech Zones'!