Sentences with phrase «zones around clinics»
The bill would create 50 - metre zones around clinics to keep away people who would harass patients and staff.
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Massachusetts is beefing up security around abortion clinics and scrambling for a legal fix after the U.S. Supreme Court voided the state's buffer zone law that kept protesters 35 feet away, saying it violated freedom of speech.
It follows a similar move in Ealing, which voted for buffer zones around an abortion clinic in west London to stop protesters gathering outside.
A number of justices raised concerns about a Massachusetts state law preventing activists from crossing a 35 - foot buffer zone around reproductive health clinics.
They were, in Justice Scalia's words, to «be taught a lesson»» a lesson the Court forcefully applied in Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc., which created, around abortion clinics, a zone in which pro-choice advocates were free to demonstrate but even peaceful abortion protesters were subject to arrest.
One proposal would see a «buffer zone» placed around the clinic meaning protesters wouldn't be allowed within a certain distance.
«As attorney general, he successfully fought to protect and expand buffer zones around health clinics so that families would be safe from intimidation and harassment.»
Anti-abortion-rights demonstrators stand outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2014 after oral arguments over buffer zones around abortion clinics.
Bill 9 would create minimum 50 metre no - protest zones around abortion clinics.
Watson and Spratt challenged the Access to Abortion Services Act, which creates a no - protest («bubble») zone around abortion clinics to allow women access to clinic services free of unwanted approaches by anti-abortion protesters.