06.26.2014
Media

Supreme Court Thwarts “Buffer Zone” Initiative and Turns its Back on Women

Today the Supreme Court turned its back on women. Instead of upholding a law enacted to protect the safety of patients and staff, the Court ruled to inhibit women’s ability to freely exercise their right to abortion care—a right afforded by the Court itself over forty years ago—and chose instead to allow protesters to continue their routine of harassment, intimidation, and shaming of women seeking abortion care.

“With this ruling the Supreme Court is sending a message to women that they are on their own. They are telling women across the country that while they may have the right to an abortion, they will have to suffer to exercise it,” said Debra Hauser, president of Advocates for Youth.  Read more