Hate Group That Fights Buffer Zones Outside Abortion Clinics Has DC Office Inside New SCOTUS Buffer Zone

Rolling Stone reports:

Soon after the draft of its decision stripping abortion rights got leaked, the Supreme Court resembled a fortress. The courthouse was ringed with eight-foot fencing and public streets and walkways near the grounds were closed to the public.

There was thick irony in the fact that the high court justices had created a “buffer zone” to limit pro-abortion demonstrators from getting up-close-and-personal. The court has spent decades declaring broad buffer zones around abortion clinics unconstitutional, forcing patients to run an intimidating (and often abusive) gauntlet of anti-abortion protesters.

This irony runs deeper still. The anti-abortion group Liberty Counsel jumpstarted the war on clinic buffer zones with a 1994 Supreme Court case, and continues to battle such restrictions as an intolerable infringement on First Amendment rights. The group has an outpost in Washington, D.C., but Americans cannot protest there either — because the Supreme Court buffer zone actually encompasses its building too.

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The antiabortion Liberty Counsel has spent decades fighting “buffer zones” at clinics. But you can’t protest in front of its D.C. outpost. It’s inside the buffer zone surrounding the Supreme Court:https://t.co/nEAmgXHJ0s

— Tim Dickinson (@7im) July 1, 2022

Radical religious-right activist Mat Staver accuses companies that will provide coverage to employees who may now need to travel out of state to obtain an abortion of treating their employees like “slave labor.” pic.twitter.com/MSLw9cYBsR

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 30, 2022