{"id":294664,"date":"2023-07-14T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=294664"},"modified":"2023-07-13T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:46:45","slug":"abortion-buffer-zone-pennsylvania-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-buffer-zone-pennsylvania-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion buffer zone case in Pennsylvania heads to Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Liberty Counsel<\/a>) Liberty Counsel will be preparing a petition for cert to the U.S. Supreme Court in light of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals recent decision<\/a> in Reilly v. City of Harrisburg <\/i>regarding the city\u2019s ordinance that was enforced to prohibit pro-life volunteers from one-on-one counseling near a Planned Parenthood abortion facility.<\/p>\n

In 2012, the Harrisburg City Council passed an ordinance to curtail any interference with abortion facilities called \u201cInterference with Access to Health Care Facilities.\u201d Liberty Counsel\u2019s reply brief<\/a> to the Third Circuit states that the ordinance makes it illegal to enter the buffer zone and have a one-on-one conversation about abortion with a person entering the abortion clinic.<\/p>\n

Liberty Counsel represents Colleen Reilly and Becky Biter, who engage in peaceful sidewalk counseling to encourage women to protect the life of their unborn children. The City of Harrisburg enforced the ordinance silencing Reilly and Biter on more than 70 feet of public sidewalk in front of the Harrisburg Planned Parenthood preventing them from quiet one-on-one conversations, peaceful sidewalk counseling, prayer, and distributing life-affirming literature.<\/p>\n