Supreme Court Will Not Review Ruling Limiting Pro-Life Counseling Outside Abortion Clinics

The Seventh Circuit ruled against those who challenged a bubble zone law in March 2024, finding precedent barred the appeal.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas poses for an official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building in Washington on Oct. 7, 2022. Alex Wong/Getty Images

The Supreme Court decided on Feb. 24 not to hear a case challenging a 25-year-old precedent allowing governments to forbid outreach within a so-called bubble zone outside abortion clinics.

The nation’s highest court did not explain its new, unsigned order that denied the petition in Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale.