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Supreme Court Rejects Challenges to Abortion-Clinic Bubble Zones

posted 5 years ago by chilidoggg (14575)
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The U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed abortion opponents by leaving intact a precedent that lets states and cities prevent people from approaching women without consent as they are entering a clinic.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-rejects-challenges-to-abortion-clinic-bubble-zones/ar-BB16g0oZ

Conservative groups said the Chicago and Harrisburg clinic-access laws target anti-abortion advocacy and violate free-speech rights. The Chicago ordinance puts an 8-foot bubble zone around people within 50 feet of a clinic entrance. The measure restricts only specified types of speech, including protesting and counseling.

The Harrisburg ordinance creates a fixed 20-foot buffer zone around the entrance to a health-care facility.

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Justice Clarence Thomas said he would have heard the Chicago case.

[–] Keelai (36087) 5 years ago

Approaching?

They mean harassing women. Conservative groups wanted permission to harass women on the street. How vile!

No surprise! Thomas has a history of harassing women.

[–] chilidoggg (14575) 5 years ago

These news stories are crap because all their reporters got their journalism credentials at the same honky tonk that Baptist preachers got their preechin' lies-sins-ses.

This is what I assumed is what happened, and if true it is the important part of this story:

It takes a vote of 4 USSC Justices to HEAR a case. These Chicago and Harrisburg cases did not get 4 votes to HEAR the case. Only Thomas is identified a vote to do so...

So where were Gorsuch, Alito, Kavenaugh, Roberts?

[–] Keelai (36087) 5 years ago

Your story had good documents links, but it's written poorly. This link is clearer:
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/02/high-court-rejects-challenges-abortion-clinic-bubble-zones/112053864/

I think there's a written denial, but it hasn't been posted yet.