By Paul Strand
BOSTON – Outside many Massachusetts abortion clinics you’ll often find a large painted line on the ground that curves around the entrance or exit and sets off a 35-foot area know as a bubble zone.
State law forbids any abortion protestor, sidewalk counselor or advocate from entering that zone to talk about the abortion issue.
Advocates of the law say its purpose was to keep partisans from harassing or intimidating abortion workers or customers heading into or out of those clinics.
But pro-life demonstrators and sidewalk counselors outside the clinics say the law is keeping them from saving lives because they can no longer effectively reach women headed to get abortions.
“It takes away the person-to-person aspect of it and puts you at a distance,” longtime pro-life demonstrator Ray Neary told CBN News outside a clinic in Boston.
He said imagine trying to communicate with a pregnant woman from 35 feet away.
“You have to yell at them as though you’re in opposition to them, and you’re not,” Neary explained. “You’re trying to save that child that’s in that womb.”
Read more at http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2014/January/Pro-Lifers-Fight-to-Burst-Bubble-Zone-Law/
Additional link
Pro-Life Advocates Pray Supreme Court Strikes Down Abortion Clinic ‘Bubble Zones’