MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis has softened an ordinance that prohibited the obstruction of entrances and driveways to abortion clinics after
FILE - A protester demonstrates in front of a Planned Parenthood, July 12, 2022, in Saint Paul, Minn. MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis has softened an ordinance that prohibited the obstruction of entrances and driveways to abortion clinics after anti-abortion activists sued to challenge it on free-speech grounds.to exclude constitutionally protected activities and agreed to pay the plaintiffs’ legal fees.
Nationwide, several people have been convicted in the last year alone under the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, known as the FACE Act, or similar laws for physically blockading abortion clinic entrances. That includes activists in Detroit, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Mount Juliet, Tennessee, with some getting prison sentences as high as three to five years.
“We also want to be sure to provide very specific carveouts to ensure First Amendment rights are protected and ensure our local authority remains intact,” she told her colleagues at the meeting. Planned Parenthood North Central States, which was not a party to the lawsuit, said in a statement that under the revision, “Patients continue to be protected from people blocking or obstructing the driveway or sidewalk.”
And they’ve asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to an ordinance in Carbondale, Illinois. While the Supreme Court in 2000 affirmed a Colorado buffer zone requirement in a case called Hill v. Colorado, Breen noted that the high court more recently in its Dobbs decision, which struck down the constitutional right to abortion, criticized the Hill decision, saying its previous abortion rulings “have distorted First Amendment doctrines.
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