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Supreme Court declines chance to overturn precedent limiting protests outside abortion clinics

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, which challenged an abortion clinic buffer zone ordinance, leading to a dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas about a missed clarity opportunity on First Amendment rights.
Justice Thomas argued that the Hill precedent should be overturned, claiming it has been undermined by later rulings and has created confusion regarding free speech rights.
Justice Thomas emphasized that the Court's failure to address the Hill precedent stresses the confusion it causes in lower courts regarding buffer zone laws.
This decision leaves unresolved questions about how far local governments can restrict speech outside abortion clinics, with activists claiming their First Amendment rights are compromised.

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Breitbart

Supreme Court Declines to Weigh In on Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up two cases challenging "buffer zones" that prohibit pro-life activists from approaching someone entering an abortion clinic.

6 days ago·United States

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Our Sunday Visitor

Supreme Court declines to hear abortion clinic ‘bubble zone’ challenges

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Supreme Court will not hear a pair of cases that may have allowed sidewalk counselors and protesters at abortion clinics to get as close as 8 feet away from people entering them. The decision denying review of the case was announced Feb. 24. “Our appeal may have been denied, but across this nation, at hundreds of abortion facilities, a different sort of tragic ‘denial’ continues,” stated Brian Westbrook, executive di…

6 days ago

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Jezebel

The Supreme Court Didn't Punch Us Directly in the Face, for Once

On Monday, the Supreme Court said it wouldn’t hear a pair of cases challenging the constitutionality of so-called “buffer zones” around abortion clinics, meaning the laws regulating anti-abortion demonstrations can stand—for now. Yes, that is technically a win for reproductive rights, except it comes weeks after the Trump administration made two major moves that embolden people to harass clinic staff and patients. In January, Trump pardoned 23 a…

6 days ago

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The Christian Post

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to abortion 'bubble zone' law as city quietly repeals it

The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a case that could have led to the reversal of a decades-old decision upholding “bubble zones” outside abortion clinics as the city at the center of the case quietly repealed its ordinance. #Abortion #SupremeCourt #bubblezone

7 days ago

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Newsmax

Clarence Thomas Rips High Court for 'Abdication' of Duty

Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito dissented; only Thomas filed a written rebuttal.

7 days ago·Washington, United States

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VOA News

US Supreme Court rebuffs free speech challenge to abortion clinic buffer zones

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge to the legality of buffer zones used to protect access to abortion clinics and limit harassment of patients in a challenge brought by anti-abortion activists who have argued that their free speech rights were being violated. The justices turned away appeals by self-described "sidewalk counselors" in New Jersey and Illinois of lower court decisions to throw out their lawsuits…

7 days ago·United States

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