{"id":316861,"date":"2024-08-09T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=316861"},"modified":"2024-08-08T21:54:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T02:54:38","slug":"los-angeles-county-buffer-zone-limit-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/los-angeles-county-buffer-zone-limit-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County votes for &#8216;buffer zone&#8217; to limit free speech outside abortion facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on August 6, 2024, voted 5-0 to write a draft ordinance establishing a free speech &#8220;buffer zone&#8221; area around places of worship, hospitals, schools, and health care clinics \u2014 including abortion facilities \u2014 in the unincorporated areas of the county.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2024\/08\/06\/la-supervisors-advance-buffer-zones-would-protect-worshippers-healthcare-seekers-from-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Daily News<\/a>, the buffer zone would ban anyone from anyone obstructing or blocking another person from entering or exiting these facilities, while also prohibiting anyone who is handing out leaflets, displaying signs, offering counseling, or other information from getting within eight feet of someone entering or exiting, unless that person consents. That eight-foot barrier would be in effect within a 100-foot radius outside the facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLos Angeles County has a responsibility to ensure our community members can safely receive medical care, practice their faith or access their schools,\u201d said Board of Supervisors Chair Lindsey Horvath, 3rd District, who authored the motion. \u201cEven here in Los Angeles County, we have seen how intimidation is used to prevent community members from entering facilities to receive essential services \u2013 bubble zones are how we meaningfully protect personal safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-york-county-abortion-buffer-zone\/\"><em>New York county suddenly reconsiders abortion facility buffer zone law<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One pro-life volunteer spoke against the proposed ordinance during the Aug. 6 Board of Supervisors meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuffer zones are designed to put me in jail, and they take away the right for pregnant women to hear their options,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/beverlypress.com\/2024\/08\/l-a-county-passes-bubble-zone-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Teresa Saydah. \u201cI am one of the pro-life volunteers who stand outside abortion centers. I offer a brochure on free service as I say, \u2018If you know anyone\u2019s who\u2019s pregnant, here are some free resources. I would love to help you.\u2019 For that, I would be put in jail. Buffer zones also limit the ability for pregnant women to have a compassionate conversation about their options, and it denies them information on resources available to assist them at pregnancy help centers and in their community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the move was praised by a representative from Planned Parenthood. Celinda Vasquez thanked board members for \u201ccreating L.A. County as a safe haven and further protecting the patients and the workforce that provides basic health care every single day to your county residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen a terrible, terrible increase in threats \u2013 safety threats \u2013 to the people who are simply accessing basic health care,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/beverlypress.com\/2024\/08\/l-a-county-passes-bubble-zone-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cAnd in a post-Dobbs world, your actions [will] build again upon the safe haven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/federal-judge-strikes-california-pro-life-speech\/\">struck down<\/a> a 2021 state law in California signed by Governor Gavin Newsom which had &#8220;created a 100-foot buffer zone around any vaccine administration site and banned free-speech activities within 30 feet of any person who is within 100 feet of the vaccine site,&#8221; according to a previous article by Live Action News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harassment&#8221; included approaching or even simply standing with in 30 feet to &#8220;pass[] a leaflet or handbill to, display[] a sign to, or engage[] in oral protest, education, or counseling with, that other person in a public way or on a sidewalk area.&#8221; And because abortion facilities were at that time administering vaccines including shots for COVID-19, the law was penalizing the free speech of pro-life sidewalk counselors.<\/p>\n<p>Other areas in the state have <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/napa-city-council-free-speech-planned-parenthood\/\">passed<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sacramento-buffer-zone\/\">intensified<\/a> existing buffer zone ordinances to prevent pro-life outreach near abortion businesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/ARQQhk1\"><b><i>The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. 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