US supreme court rejects anti-abortion challenges to clinic ‘buffer zones’ | US supreme court

In loss miscarriage Divists, and US Supreme Court On Monday, he refused to address two cases that included “insulating zone” decrees, which limit protests around abortion clinics that spent anti -abortion activists in an attempt to dismantle.

Two cases dealt with the temporary store zone of the Carpendel cities, IllinoisAnd Englishwood, New Jersey. In deposits to the Supreme Court, which is dominated by conservatives 6-3, activists against abortion argued that these decrees contradict the guarantees of the first amendment to freedom of expression. They also asked the judges to break the ruling of 2000 called Hill V Colorado, who supported the law of a buffer zone in Colorado.

The judges did not explain the reason for their refusal to hear the arguments in cases, but the right -wing judges Samuel Alto and Clarence Thomas They said they prefer to take them. In an opposition that determines his desire to take the Carpenell issue, Thomas wrote that he believed Hill “lacks the ongoing power”, partly due to the recent provisions such as DobBS V Jackson, which was canceled, which was canceled. ROE V Wade It canceled the federal right to abortion.

“I would have seen this opportunity to explicitly cancel Hill,” he wrote. “After we deny us in Dobbs, I do not see the remainder of the hill. However, the lower courts still feel committed to it. Today, the court rejects an invitation to register the record on the rest of Hill.”

the Illinois The case included a 2023 decree that limits people to reach 8 feet from another individual if this person is within 100 feet of the health care facility, such as multiponda abortion clinics. In the wake of the disappearance of Ro, Carpenell clinics have become a haven for people who flee the abortion, which is now a large blanket from the southern United States and the Middle West.

Life Life Tealition Group Life Life brought the decree, pledging to keep pace with the fighting in the court even after the cancellation of Carbondell. The group argued that “shooting” on this matter proved only that “Hill will continue to distort both the first amendment and public discussions on abortion unless it is canceled.”

the New Jersey Meanwhile, the case was brought by an anti -abortion protester named Gyrill Turku, who asked the judges to bring down a decree in 2014. This decree prevents people from obtaining 8 feet from the entrances to some health care facilities in Englo – including abortion clinics Unless patients, employees, or passers -by.

The abortion providers and their supporters have spent years in defending the idea of ​​buffer zones, noting the high rates of violence and harassment that occur in and around American abortion clinics. Over the course of the last century, clinics succeeded in the cavity of more than 40 bombings, 200 Arson and 300 robbery, According to the National Union for Mide. At least 11 people were killed.

Abortion clinics have also long relied on the protection of the Law on Freedom to reach the entrances to the clinic, or the face, a federal law aimed at punishing people who are subject to reproductive health clinics or who threaten, hinders or affect individuals who are trying to enter these clinics. But yet Donald Trump He took office in January, the Ministry of Justice pledged to him Reducing investigations significantly In alleged face violations. Trump also obtained many anti -abortion activists who recently condemned his face violation.

In the years it had passed, the Supreme Court showed a frequency on the most recent abortion cases. In 2024, Judges rejected an attempt To limit Leave the door open to The lower court to continue the case. Judges also In the case He asked whether federal law requires hospitals to provide abortion in emergency abortion. This case also continues in the lower court.

However, the Supreme Court is scheduled to rule in the case of abortion, at least this term. In April, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case on whether South Carolina can reduce the planned abortion provider of funded fund.