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>within it are provisions to make the areas directly outside abortion clinics free from harassment by religious fanatics.

Do they also prevent pro-abortion fanatics from demonstrating outside churches and the offices of anti-abortion lawmakers?




Interestingly, the FACE Act in these United States ("Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances") provides equal protection to crisis pregnancy centers and other related pro-life clinics and counseling offices. The definition used by FACE covers pro-life and pro-abortion facilities alike, and so all types of pregnancy centers have the same buffer around them, protected from fanatics who would harrass vulnerable mothers who are about to make a momentous choice which affects them, their children, the father, and their whole family.


Why on Earth would they do that? Is there a big problem with "pro-abortion fanatics" trying to stop people having access to healthcare?




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