Greater Boston Video: Supreme Court Strikes Down Mass. Law
573 views · Published 26 June 2014 · 9:14 · Indexed 28 October 2026
Channel: GBH News · 2014 · News & Politics
Back in 2007, Massachusetts strengthened a law it already had in place and made it a crime to stand on a public way or sidewalk within 35 feet of an entrance to abortion clinics. Protestors complained the rule prevented them from offering sidewalk counseling to women seeking abortions and that it violated the First and Fourteenth amendments, and today the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.
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