Courthouse News: “Florida anti-abortion activists brought their challenge to a protest-free zone at a women’s health clinic to the 11th Circuit on Tuesday, asking the three-judge panel to overturn a federal judge’s refusal to block a vehicle safety ordinance.
The Clearwater, Florida, City Council passed the ordinance last March in response to increasingly tense protests at the Bread and Roses Women’s Health Center — the city’s only abortion clinic — after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. The ordinance prohibits protesters from crossing the clinic’s driveway or the portion of sidewalk within five feet of the driveway.
Pro-life organization Florida Preborn Rescue, joined by four of its “sidewalk counselors,” sued the city, claiming the buffer zone violates their First Amendment rights.”