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Pro-Life Group Asks Supreme Court to Strike Down Illinois City’s Abortion Counseling Restrictions

Coalition Life is challenging a 2000 ruling that allows restrictions on sidewalk counseling outside abortion clinics.
Pro-Life Group Asks Supreme Court to Strike Down Illinois City’s Abortion Counseling Restrictions
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on May 12, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
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7/20/2024|Updated: 7/21/2024
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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.

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