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Suit Challenges Massachusetts Law Creating Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones

By Howard Friedman

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Suit was filed in federal district court in Boston on Friday challenging Massachusetts' recently-enacted law (SB 1353) creating a 35-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics. In McCullen v. Coakley (full text of complaint), a group of pro-life advocates who wish to talk with, and distribute literature to, women entering a Boston area Planned Parenthood clinic ask that the new law be declared unconstitutional on its face and as applied. Alliance Defense Fund, announcing the filing of the lawsuit, said: "It?s ironic that Massachusetts, the ?cradle of liberty,? would pass a law that effectively creates a First Amendment-free zone that silences those who seek to share the truth about abortion."

Full post as published by Religion Clause on January 22, 2008 (boomark / email).

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