Through is protests with 40 Days for Life, though, perhaps not your chapter. However, the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia have had cities, states or provinces activate bubble zones because of “counseling” by 40 Days protesters.
The Guardian
Anti-abortion activists harassing women at UK clinics during Lent | UK news | The Guardian
Hardline religious activists, some of whom are part of a so-called “40 Days for Life” campaign, have been targeting women in increasing numbers at 10 clinics across the country in the run-up to Easter, the Guardian has been told.
Activists in Birmingham and Leicester are handing out leaflets with graphic images of foetuses and which suggest that having a termination is harder to overcome than rape and that women who have abortions are more likely to kill themselves.
Women in Cardiff have been delaying abortion appointments because they do not want to face the protesters, who have been accused of intimidating women by carrying cameras.
A protester in Manchester has been trying to show women models of foetuses in an attempt to prevent them from having abortions, and demonstrators in Leicester constructed a display of foetus dolls portraying different stages of development.
Demonstrators have called women visiting a clinic in Manchester “murderers”, and one protester became “verbally aggressive” when told by police not to approach people.
“This is not freedom of speech, it is harassment…Last month a council voted to introduce a buffer zone outside a clinic in Richmond, south-west London. Last year another buffer zone was voted through in Ealing, west London, to stop protesters coming within 100 metres of a clinic.
(laflet) produced by 40 Days for Life, carries an image of a foetus and graphic descriptions of methods of abortion. Without providing a reference, it states: “Research has linked abortion to increased risk of future miscarriage and breast cancer.”
Robert Colquhoun, 40 Days for Life’s director of international campaigns, said: “40 Days for Life organise peaceful, prayerful and legal vigils outside of abortion centres in the United Kingdom…… in a peaceful, loving and compassionate manner.”
11 states make it illegal to obstruct the entrance to a clinic: California, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Washington.
3 states have Buffer Zone laws, CO MA, MT
6 cities have ordinances about distance Chicago IL, Buffalo NY, Rochester NY, Melbourne FL , Pittsburg PA, West Palm Beach FL