[Eleutheria5]

Nothing unusual about this. Protesting is protected by the First Amendment, but it’s the right to peaceably assemble. Getting right in people’s faces and shouting at them is not peaceable assembly, and to safeguard access of patients at a clinic, or customers at a grocery store, or attendees a convention, that are being picketed, with a buffer zone, is par for the course, so long as the buffer zone isn’t unreasonably vast.

[2banana]

You can’t even pray in the buffer zone.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Here in Bristol, TN, "clinic escorts" (a.k.a. "deathscorts") use bullhorns to drown out the gentle voices of our prayer vigilers, and also play a pre-recorded crowd soundtrack which sounds like the confused roar emanating from street demonstrators who isn't quite sure about what their slogans are supposed to be.

It's raucous and unnerving, and I can only imagine it raises the stress and the blood pressure of both their staff and their patients.

It certainly belies their claim that they want their patients to enjoy a calm, serene, dignified baby-disposal experience.