Protesters Move Nearer Abortion Clinic
With a Supreme Court ruling on their side, antiabortion demonstrators moved closer to patients entering a women’s clinic Friday.
About 15 antiabortion advocates milled around outside Buffalo GYN Womenservices, holding signs and carrying brochures they tried to hand to women entering the building. Some prayed and sang hymns.
Ten abortion rights advocates walked people into the clinic. They wore yellow vests with the words “clinic escort” emblazoned on them in black. Buffalo police were also on hand but took no action.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down so-called “floating buffer zones” that forced protesters to stay 15 feet away from any clinic patient or staff member.
But the court upheld the “fixed buffer zone” that keeps demonstrators 15 feet from clinic doors and driveways.
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