Protesters have long targeted the West Loop’s Family Planning Associates clinic, said Ald. Bill Conway, rushing toward patients and amplifying sound so loud it disrupts work being done inside…
Anti-abortion activist Eileen Steffel of Glenview, back to camera, faces a row of pointing pro-choice “handmaids” as several dozen abortion activists and supporters rally during a “Bans Off My Body”protest at the Federal Plaza in Chicago, on Sept. 10, 2021. Recurring anti-abortion protests outside a downtown women’s health clinic may soon be dampened by a new ordinance limiting nearby loud sounds.
“I personally observed protesters putting amplifiers up against the wall, making it so loud inside that clinicians can’t hear patients speak and the building shakes,” Conway said., but was held up before a full council vote when city lawyers shared legal concerns. The ordinance was altered to refine the area in which the restrictions apply, making it “as defensible as we can make it,” city attorney Rey Phillips Santos said Tuesday.
But the legislation was broadly supported by the committee’s members, who pushed back on the criticism to argue that the ordinance specifically targeted sound amplification, not protest. “You guys are in clear violation. I saw that,” Conway shouts at demonstrators in the video. “You are sitting here, violating the law.”
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