A pro-life sidewalk counseling organization asked the Supreme Court last week to invalidate a Carbondale, Illinois, law that forbids protests and outreach within a so-called bubble zone outside abortion clinics.
The group, Coalition Life, argues that the 2023 law violates sidewalk counselors’ First Amendment right to approach women near abortion facilities to advise them of alternatives to abortion. Similar laws exist in other states such as New Hampshire and Montana.
