Pro-Life Sidewalk Counselors Want 'Bubble Zone' Revisited
A coalition of pro-life sidewalk counselors is asking the United States Supreme Court to revisit a previous decision upholding "bubble zones" outside abortion clinics in light of the court's recent reversal of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. In a brief submitted to the Supreme Court, attorneys for the Thomas More Society sought relief on behalf of Coalition Life, a group of pro-life sidewalk counselors operating in the Midwest. Coalition Life is involved in litigation over a law in Carbondale, Illinois, that implements a so-called bubble zone around the abortion clinic in the city that limits the ability of pro-life sidewalk counselors to inform women experiencing unwanted pregnancies of options available to them within 100 feet of the facility. Read more...