Court Rejects Zone to Buffer Abortion Clinic
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/us/supreme-court-abortion-clinic-protests.html
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down a Massachusetts law that barred protests, counseling and other speech near abortion clinics.
The law, enacted in 2007, created 35-foot buffer zones around entrances to abortion clinics. State officials said the law was a response to a history of harassment and violence at abortion clinics in Massachusetts, including a shooting rampage at two facilities in 1994.
The US supreme court’s abortion buffer zone ruling protects a gauntlet of horror
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/26/us-supreme-court-abortion-buffer-zone-ruling-gauntlet-horror
Abortion clinics are not safe places - anti-choicers have ensured that - and if women are going to be free from harassment, the fight must go on
Imagine trying to walk into a building, trying to get a medical treatment – and someone screams at you. Someone is two inches from your face – two feet from the front door – and that someone is videotaping you, calling you a whore. There’s ketchup poured in the snowbanks around you, made to look like spurted blood. You try to take a step forward, but people block your way, yelling that you’re going to be “mother to a dead baby”. They hold signs in your faces, whisper “murderer” in your ear as you pass. Maybe they shove you.
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