Abortion buffer zone laws begin falling after Supreme Court ruling

[theHandpuppet]

You really have to read the full article to realize the horrible impact this SC decision is having/will have all across the country. I can only provide a couple of examples here.

Abortion buffer zone laws begin falling after Supreme Court ruling
The Chicago Tribune
Alana Semuels
July 7, 2014

Less than two weeks after a Supreme Court ruling struck down a Massachusetts law requiring protesters to stay outside a 35-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics, cities around the country are moving to repeal similar laws or are not enforcing the buffer zones.

That is leading abortion rights advocates to worry that women may not seek the medical care they need because of fear of being harassed or intimidated outside clinics...

...In Boston, abortion clinic protesters have already changed their behavior in the wake of the June 26 Supreme Court decision on McCullen vs. Coakley. They now stand within the yellow line that had been painted on the pavement after Massachusetts passed its law in 2007. But they don't stay there. Instead, they now follow patients to the door of the clinic on busy Commonwealth Avenue.

Marty Walz, head of Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts, said the protesters had managed to scare some clients away, with the clinic reporting more no-shows for the week than usual....

MORE at http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-na-nn-buffer-zone-laws-struck-down-20140707,0,3035454.story

[conservaphobe]

1. The intended effect. nt

[wandy]

2. Clearly the desired effect..............

Legal percussion in the name of god. Stay tuned as we sink further into a theocratic hell.

You relay can not think that the supreme court believed these good christans would act responsibly.
Then and again how would you expect them to learn from the history of the dark ages.

[merrily]

3. Since the ruling was that buffer zones are unconstitutional, they

have to fall, no?

I wonder if this is the first anti-LE ruling the Roberts Court has made.

(For those who are not aware, Massachusetts said that police cannot do they duty without buffer zones, not only that the pregnant women benefited from them.)

This has to be the one of the most difficult times in a woman's life. It's hideous that people are now free to drive her even further to the breaking point.

[supercats]

4. This Is Disgusting...

Our country is going backwards fast.....I don't know how but we the people need to rid our country of republicans by any means possible, they are systematically ruining America one day at a time.

[jmowreader]

5. So what happens...

...when a patient turns around and breaks the nose of one of the protesters before she goes in?

[COLGATE4]

6. If she's unlucky she gets arrested for assault and battery. nt

[jmowreader]

10. Or sued, or both

On the flip side, if the cop called to the incident "notices" the sidewalk "might have been a little slippery there, you know you have to watch out for ice in August, and gee no one except your friends saw anything and we know how they lie"...

[theHandpuppet]

7. Yep, that's going to happen sooner or later

At what point does a woman (or her escort), feeling immediately threatened, have a right to defend herself with pepper spray or a punch? Where's that "stand your ground" rule for women?

[theHandpuppet]

8. Heads up, BOSTON! Protest alert!

Rally Planned In Response to Supreme Court’s Buffer Zone Ruling
Women’s rights groups from across the state will convene on the steps of City Hall.
By Steve Annear
Boston Daily
July 7, 2014

Megan Amundson has heard about pockets of protests around Massachusetts, where grassroots women’s rights activists have blasted the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the unconstitutionality of the buffer zone, and their decision to side with Hobby Lobby in the debate on contraception coverage.

But a rally planned on the steps of City Hall this week will be a culmination of those efforts, and will bring together dozens of groups to speak out loudly against “this giant step back” for women.

“This rally will be providing an outlet for the anger that has been bubbling up on the ground,” said Amundson, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. “People are really, really angry, and they’re also looking for a sense of community that they’re not the only ones who are upset about [the Supreme Court’s decisions].”

In total, 21 groups, including the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, the Women’s Bar Association, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts, GLAD, and Hollaback! Boston will convene on the steps outside of City Hall, and co-host the protest, called the “Supreme Rally for Women’s Equality,” on Tuesday evening at 5 p.m.

MORE at http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/07/07/supreme-court-buffer-zone-protest/

[Xyzse]

9. Question...

I read in this board that the reason people can not do protests or things like that on places like hobby lobby and so forth, is because it is in private property.

Where, they rent out their space from a private owner of the structure that they use.

Stating that, is it possible to re-locate in such areas instead?

Sad as it is, there are gated office parks that could work as well, where the property owner can expel such persons to stay outside of the fencing.

I dislike that it has to come to that, but, just wondering about that.

[jmowreader]

11. I don't think that would work

Planned Parenthood doesn't do abortions in the street. They do them on private property now and the protesters have already proven they will go straight into the clinic at a moment's notice and shut down the day's activity if the clinics don't bar the door.

Y'know, it seems to me Duke, the University of Idaho, Montana State and a bunch of other schools graduate defensive linemen and tight ends every year who'll never enter the NFL Draft because their teams suck...Planned Parenthood may want to look into hiring these guys to eject protesters when they come in.

[Xyzse]

13. Damn... I know that, but what I mean is that some say you can't do protests at stores

Because it is in a Private Property.

Is it possible to get the property owner to be called and told those protestors are trespassing in Private Property, and get them ejected that way?

[theHandpuppet]

14. There have been plenty of protests at the stores

What you can't do is block the entrance or interfere with traffic. The companies that own the stores do not own the sidewalks.

[Xyzse]

15. Ahhhhh... Ok, thanks for the clarification.

[theHandpuppet]

17. And when you protest along the sidewalks...

... best to spread out in a line so you don't impede foot traffic.

[librechik]

12. Forward into the past!

let's barricade the anti abortion churches with protesters showing pictures of inquisition victims.

[tammywammy]

16. States & cities should pass a law like Colorado's.

Colorado's 8-foot buffer was upheld.