Martha Coakley, et al., Respondents
Jennifer Grace Miller, Counsel of Record
Starting in the late 1980s, protestors in Massachusetts regularly began demonstrating in front of health care clinics that provided abortion services, sometimes physically blocking women from entering the facilities. In order to address this, the Commonwealth enacted a law setting up an 18-foot zone around clinics in which protestors could not come within 6 feet of individuals entering the clinic without their consent. The Massachusetts legislature determined that this law was still not ensuring safe and easy access to clinics, so in 2007, it passed a law that set up a 35-foot buffer zone around the entrances to all facilities…
