{"id":306066,"date":"2024-02-01T06:41:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=306066"},"modified":"2024-01-31T14:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T20:09:46","slug":"abortion-buffer-zone-issues-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-buffer-zone-issues-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion buffer zone case raises important issues for US Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/lc.org\/newsroom\/details\/013024-abortion-buffer-zone-case-raises-important-issues-for-scotus\">Liberty Counsel<\/a>) Liberty Counsel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lc.org\/PDFs\/LC\/013024Reply-SupportCertiorari(asfiled).pdf\">filed<\/a>\u00a0a reply brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review\u00a0<i>Reilly v. City of Harrisburg<\/i>\u00a0where a buffer zone ordinance restricts pro-life speech but not other speech outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Counsel points out in its brief that Harrisburg applied the ordinance by singling out pro-life sidewalk counselors because of their \u201cpro-life viewpoint of their sidewalk counseling\u2026and [the Ordinance] has only been applied to restrict pro-life speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Counsel is not only asking the High Court to hold the City of Harrisburg liable for its unconstitutional ordinance, but also to overrule\u00a0<i>Hill v. Colorado.\u00a0<\/i>The Third Circuit in the\u00a0<i>Reilly<\/i>\u00a0case relied on\u00a0<i>Hill<\/i>\u00a0to categorize buffer-zone laws as content-neutral speech restrictions which distorts the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court\u2019s subsequent decisions in\u00a0<i>McCullen v. Coakley<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Reed v. Town of Gilbert\u00a0<\/i>were contrary and found that laws restricting speech based on its function or purpose are in fact content restrictions, \u201cregardless of the government\u2019s benign motive, content-neutral justification, or lack of \u2018animus toward the ideas contained\u2019 in the regulated speech.\u201d A number of Supreme Court Justices have called upon the Court to overrule\u00a0<i>Hill<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/supreme-court-federal-law-er-abortion\/\"><em>US Supreme Court to decide if federal law requires ER doctors to commit abortions<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">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 beyond the 20-foot zone 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<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, \u201cThe City of Harrisburg\u2019s ordinance violates the First Amendment and must be struck down. This case raises important First Amendment issues that the Supreme Court should address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This press release was originally posted by Liberty Counsel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/tell-congress-stop-the-doj-from-targeting-pro-life-americans\/?utm_campaign=doj_petition&amp;utm_medium=lan_website\"><b><i>The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail this Christmas for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Liberty Counsel) Liberty Counsel\u00a0filed\u00a0a reply brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review\u00a0Reilly v. City of Harrisburg\u00a0where a buffer zone ordinance restricts pro-life speech but not other speech outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility. Liberty Counsel points out in its brief that Harrisburg applied the ordinance by singling out pro-life sidewalk counselors because of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":290472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,7077],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Abortion buffer zone case raises important issues for US Supreme Court<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cThe City of Harrisburg\u2019s ordinance violates the First Amendment and must be struck down. 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