In a pivotal stand for free speech and the pro-life cause, Life Legal has filed a lawsuit against San Diego’s draconian “buffer zone” law. This ordinance, thinly veiled as a public safety provision, is designed to silence pro-life voices and protect abortion providers from any form of opposition or peaceful protest. The case, Don Blythe v. City of San Diego, challenges this blatant attack on constitutional rights and exposes its dangerous implications for free expression and advocacy for the unborn.
San Diego has imposed restrictions on pro-life activity since 1997, following the passage of the federal FACE Act. The original ordinance required pro-lifers to maintain an eight-foot distance from anyone entering an abortion clinic, but only if the individual requested it. This already sweeping measure applied to a 100-foot radius around clinic entrances, effectively silencing many voices.
But that wasn’t enough for abortion advocates. They demanded more — and they got it. In June, Mayor Todd Gloria—whose political ambitions have been supported by none other than Planned Parenthood — signed a new, harsher version into law. This updated ordinance takes aim not just at abortion clinic sidewalks but also at schools and churches, making it even harder for pro-life advocates to share their life-affirming message.
From LifeLegal
The buffer zone law is both draconian and anti-Democratic! End Abortion Now! Adoption is the option.
I support the buffer zone law. The loaded language and unwarranted assumptions in the article are laughable.
Nobody’s free speech is being denied. Prolifers think they have the right to block access. They don’t. Prolifers think they have a right to accost people going about their business. They don’t. Just stand there quietly and pray.
Would you want people blocking your entrance to church or telling you 100 feet from the church entrance that your beliefs are stupid?
There are good and bad ways to be prolife.
They don’t: There is nothing laughable about abortion. Mother Teresa said, “Abortion is really a war against the child, and I hate the killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.” “And if we accept that the mother can kill even her child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?” “This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.” She continues, “ By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. These pro-life protesters have every right to pray and prevent the murder of the unborn. It’s their God-given right.
They can and should pray in a nonobstructive way. They do not have a right to prevent abortions from being conducted. Abortion is an evil, detestable reality. But the end doesn’t justify the means.
It is Catholic teaching that the end does not justify the means. that is true.