{"id":326873,"date":"2025-02-25T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=326873"},"modified":"2025-02-25T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:15:00","slug":"supreme-court-declines-case-buffer-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/supreme-court-declines-case-buffer-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court declines to hear case to overturn ‘buffer zone’ precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-life advocates from the organization Coalition Life have announced that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has declined to hear a case in which the pro-lifers were challenging a ‘buffer zone’ law limiting pro-life activity outside of Carbondale, Illinois abortion facilities.<\/p>\n

In July 2024, the pro-lifers, represented by the Thomas More Society, filed a petition<\/a> asking SCOTUS to overturn its 2000 decision in\u00a0Hill v. Colorado<\/em><\/a>. That ruling upheld a 1993 Colorado statute preventing pro-life sidewalk counselors from being within eight feet of the entrance of an abortion business without consent to protest, educate, counsel, or distribute information. Nationwide, many municipalities have implemented “buffer zones” outside abortion facilities based on the precedent established by Hill<\/em>, including the city of Carbondale, Illinois.<\/p>\n

Three abortion facilities opened in Carbondale following the overturn of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, and the city quickly implemented an extensive buffer zone\u00a0with a large 100-foot radius around \u201cany entrance door\u201d to a \u201chospital, medical clinic or healthcare facility\u201d in the city.<\/p>\n