The following comes from a Sept. 3 story by Heather Knight for SFGate.com.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Malia Cohen later this month will introduce legislation modeled on a new law in Massachusetts that attempts to preserve a buffer zone in front of clinics that offer abortion and other reproductive services, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking such zones down.
The difference in both the new Massachusetts and San Francisco versions is that the zone would only apply once a problem occurs – such as a police officer determining that an antiabortion protester is harassing a woman seeking an abortion – and would not exist at all times. The officer could then order the protester to move 25 feet away from the clinic or face arrest.
“Access to reproductive health and family planning are things the mayor thinks are very important for San Francisco families,” said Lee’s spokeswoman, Christine Falvey. “He wants to make sure the city does all it can and should to protect those rights for women in San Francisco.”
San Francisco officials in 1993 created an 8-foot “bubble zone” around anyone within 100 feet of a health care facility, but Supervisor David Campos last year argued that was ineffective because antiabortion protesters stood in one place rather than coming within 8 feet of people entering clinics.
He sponsored legislation last year that was adopted, creating a 25-foot buffer zone around the entrances, exits and driveways of reproductive health facilities. But the Supreme Court earlier this year struck down Massachusetts’ 35-foot no-protest zone around clinics, saying it violates protesters’ free speech.
San Francisco officials have been searching for a way to legally protect women entering reproductive health clinics since then – and have anticipated that their own 25-foot buffer zone could be subject to a lawsuit by antiabortion protesters.
Police Chief Greg Suhr, meantime, has been attempting to crack down on harassment outside Planned Parenthood on Valencia Street and similar clinics by using a 20-year-old section of the city’s municipal police code that prohibits “aggressive pursuit … with the intent to cause annoyance, intimidation or fear on the part of the person being pursued.”
The section can refer to following or harassing somebody. Violators are subject to fines and a six-month jail term.
The new legislation, being crafted by the city attorney’s office, would combine that penal code section with the buffer-zone idea. It would allow police officers to implement a 25-foot buffer zone outside a clinic if they determine that aggressive pursuit or harassment is taking place. Most likely, the clinic staff would call the police department when they spot such behavior outside….
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Same-sex sodomy and prenatal infanticide have so depraved San Francisco that city officials mistake evil for good, attempting to pass this new law as if to sanctify the perversion of God’s law and Nature’s. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!
Suhr is a “catholic” who attends(ded) St. Dunstan Church in Millbrae.
Nellie, one wonders why he bothers. Habit? Political expedience?
Sounds as if pro-lifers should stage a peaceful anti-baby killing protest in front of St. Dunstan Church in Millbrae on Sunday! The Center for Bioethical Reform has suitable posters for this purpose.
Let’s emphasize more the responsibility of the father, and we will have less abortions.
And condoms! Condoms prevent abortions!
ABSTINENCE prevents abortion, and sexually transmitted Disease.
The CDC (Center for Disease Control) states ABSTINENCE is best to against STDs.
The vast majority of people getting abortions were using condoms and/or birth control pills or IUDs.
Also, someone should call those phony liars out about using terms like ‘reproductive health’. How is taking dangerous chemicals, killing babies and cancer causing hormones, etc. healthy? Democrats win because they always cheat. They always lie. They never play fair. The minute a fairly innocuous bill is passed to protect life they immediately begin working on lying, distorting, and twisting the truth to get their way. Democrats have become the Big, Fat, Bulbous, Waddling Big Brother that causes society to shake and tremble everytime they take a step. They’ve always been the Fat Cats of Tammany Hall, the treacherous racists of Jim Crow South and the thugs of Chicago…the party that’s given us WWI WWII the Korean War the Vietnam War, welfare ghettos, left wing politics, an oppressive corrupt press, staggering taxes, illegal immigration…well, you get my drift. Anyone who can stomach being part of this heinous and corrupt political party is certainly capable of just about anything. And no, I’m not a Republican.
Dana,
Most of our “bishops” are Demoncrats!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
I would add, Dana, that the phony narrative, ‘War on Women,’ should be leveled at the Democratic Party. Their self-professed support of women is actually the promotion of unhealthy and unnatural self-loathing. That is they attempt to convince women that they must suppress and/or negate the most unique aspects of their gender by taking these cancer causing drugs to suppress their body’s natural functions and if that fails, they should be empowered to legally tear their own children limb from limb. (To include female children.)
IOW: They attempt, in my opinion, to redefine female empowerment as behaving like a man. And why should that be? If one is truly promoting and/or protecting women, why not promote true womanhood instead of imposing the masculine as the end goal?
That is so true, Anne. Following the dems’ reasoning, hate is love, peace is war, etc. and pro-life people are waging a war on women. (Eye roll, points finger to temple) NOW has put Little Sisters of the Poor on their top Dirty 100 List. Actually, we should re-dub NOW “Little Men” or Men with Breasts. MWB and to make it more palatable to dems, add a T for good measure. MWBT hmmm. (the T stands for transgender, natch…get with it, people! ) haha
And between you and I, the MWB really means middleclass, white and …….. or even Male Wanna Be’s . Sometimes I amaze even myself. Will it catch on, do you think? NOW is now MWBT but not RSVP or RIP because the AFL-CIO and PP and NEA want to have more letters in their acronyms now. It could get ugly. Stay tuned.
The first progressive organization to lay claim to all the letters of the Alphabet wins! Then its onto the cyrillic alphabet.
But hey, I think the MWB, is a keeper. It’s so inclusive. That addition of ‘T’ could stand for myriad things, but I’m trying to be good and it is Sunday, after all.
God bless and I hope you thank him daily for the keen whit. Love it!
What about the Right to Life of the unborn ?
Murder of the most innocent human beings, for the convenience of another.
Scientific (non-religious) site: https://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=47
What does the California Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) have to say about this?
What does the Diocese Bishop have to say about this?
Another so-called Catholic who wants to promote destruction of human beings through abortion. Mostly minorities being wiped out.
Did you hear the latest statistics, John? White students are now the minority. Everyone will have to start thinking of new cliche’s to define society’s ills.
Good Catholic school boy. Graduate of St. Brendan’s and St. Ignatius. Mother worked for the Archdiocese. Nice going, Greg.
“a 20-year-old section of the city’s municipal police code that prohibits ‘aggressive pursuit … with the intent to cause annoyance, intimidation or fear on the part of the person being pursued.’ ”
Why don’t they apply this to the countless panhandlers, bums and criminals that ply the streets of SF?
Like it or not, women have the legal right to enter a facility that performs abortions. We may think that is a sin, that it is immoral, that no one should do it, that it is taking our society down the path to destruction, but there is a legal right to enter the buildings. It is also alright to protest against abortion mills and to declare what we believe, pray for the person and try to convince them not to enter the building. But, we cannot harass those who want to enter. What this is all about, legally, is what constitutes harassment. Society pretty much disagrees with Catholic teaching about abortion. We have a very steep hill to climb. Try electing officials that think like you do, run for office. Complaining will not change society. You must have the public officials on your side, and that takes a majority in any legislative body, including the Board of Supervisors.
Bob One, your DEVOTION to the STATE never ceases to amaze me! Once again you have ‘drunk the Koolaid’. If you had ever STOOD in front of an abortion mill on abortion day, with other pro-lifers, you would not have written what you just wrote! (unless of course you were once there to usher a pregnant woman inside to abort her child. In such a case, I’m sure just seeing a pro-life individual standing quietly nearby praying the Rosary would be enough to set off your conscience and would likely be interpreted as harassment.
Bob One, I see you don’t appear to be even slightly outraged at the unjust law which gives baby killing a green light and so often puts a woman in a situation where society pressures her to believe that she has no other choice than to kill her offspring. To defend this on any level demonstrates a severe level of moral sickness on your part.
Please Tracy! I find the notion of abortion abhorrent! I have no devotion to the state – you know, the government that governs least governs best, etc. But, we are a nation of laws, built on the best constitution ever written. This is not about giving abortionist the green light, but simply about the illegality of harassing (as defined by law) people who want to do what they have the legal right to do. Am I outraged about the legal right to kill unborn babies. Of course. But a large segment of the population doesn’t agree with us. Until we elect Presidents who will appoint and the Senate will confirm judges who are likely to agree with our position, not much is going to happen. Remember, six of the nine judges on the Supreme Court are Catholic, and you see how they rule. There is a long row to hoe.
May God save us from these ‘so called Catholics’ who are politicians or head or agencies in the government!
Looks like another ‘so called Catholic’ that the Archbishop needs to have a talking to…….at this rate, the room would be a full house!!!
The longer our Bishops wait to teach, correct, and if necessary discipline through Canon 915, the worse heretical and/or schismatic Catholic politicians become.
The longer our Bishops wait to teach, correct, and if necessary discipline through Canon 915, the more Souls are lost through the mortal sins of Sacrilege against the Body and Blood of our Lord, and Scandal.
The current US Supreme Court is afraid to hear cases regarding ABORTION.
Science has progressed since 1973, and has proved that the basis for the 1973 Roe v Wade decision was based upon false assumptions, and
After allowing the murder of approx. 54 million innocent unborn babies – this is not only a civil rights violation, but genocide.
Abortion is the intentional murder of an innocent individual –
for the convenience of another.
Here is the latest scientific (non-religious) facts.
https://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=44
” Norma McCorvey is “Jane Roe.”
She claimed then that her pregnancy was the result of a rape, although for over a decade now she has been outspokenly pro-life and publicly admitted that this, and virtually every fact on which her case was built, was a lie.”
https://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/28/jane-roe-of-roe-v-wade-never-had-an-abortion-her-daughter-is-43/
https://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/22/woman-behind-roe-v-wade-im-dedicating-my-life-to-overturning-it/