Friday, November 1, 2013
Abortion clinic noise law survives challenge
The title of this post comes from this article reporting that a federal judge has rejected the challenge by anti-abortion protesters to a noise zoning ordiance. The article begins:
Anti-abortion protesters cannot enjoin a law that regulates noise around health care facilities, a federal judge ruled.
In response to public comments regarding the effects of amplified sounds on patients, West Palm Beach has a law that creates a quiet zone around health care facilities.
The ordinance bans shouting and use of a loud speaker among other loud noises within 100 feet of the property line, including private property within that distance.
Mary Susan Pine and Marilyn Blackburn are a part of group that assembles outside the Presidential Women's Center in West Palm Beach to protest against abortions and educate women about other alternatives.
Under an older version of the ordinance, Pine was fined $250 for using a bull horn in the quiet zone.
They sought an injunction, but U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks shot them down Tuesday.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civil_rights/2013/11/abortion-clinic-noise-law-survives-challenge.html
I wonder if the Judge could hear their voices in court without their bullhorns. I would not want to be a neighbor of the clinic. I would not want to be a neighbor of the protestors. Living or working in a business near a hospital or clinic is already an undesirable place to live or work. You have dead bodies being wheeled about, sirens, ugly doctors and nurses smoking cigarettes outside the doorways and littering the sidewalk with their butts. Then you top it off with pro lifers making life miserable for the dying. Keep em quiet judge.
Posted by: Liberty1st | Nov 2, 2013 12:36:55 AM