Abortion Clinics And Buffer Zones In 1994, John Salvi III shot and killed two abortion clinic workers and wounded five others during attacks on two separate Planned Parenthood clinics in Brookline. In response to those attacks, the Legislature passed a law that created a 6-foot floating buffer zone around patients and an 18-foot buffer around clinic entrances. In 2007, Gov. […]
Protestors welcome buffer zone ruling, while state leaders seek action Northeastern University law professor Martha Davis, who was part of a legal team that argued a mid-1990s case before the Supreme Court in support of buffer zones in New York, predicts that Massachusetts abortion clinics will beef up security and experience more confrontations. as a result of Thursday’s ruling. “What I think we’re going to […]
Abortion clinic buffer zones’ fate in hands of high court The country’s highest court does not say why it agrees to hear specific cases, but legal analysts say that this case combines hot-button issues in one question: abortion rights and free speech, and a state’s responsibility to balance the two. “That’s the issue the court will be looking at, and obviously [the state’s] argument is, […]