At issue was a 25-year precedent that allows local governments to create protest-free buffer zones around all health-care ...

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The two cases questioned a longstanding precedent that upheld such laws, which opponents say violate free speech rights.

The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a pair of cases from abortion opponents who say laws limiting anti-abortion ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to the legality of buffer zones used to protect access to ...

The Court refuses a case on ‘sidewalk counseling,’ over a vigorous dissent.

On Monday, the Supreme Court handed abortion rights advocates a rare win when they declined to take up a pair of cases ...

The Supreme Court turned away two appeals asking the justices to overrule a 25-year-old decision that allowed for buffer ...

In the rare case a medical abortion has not worked, a surgical abortion can be done. Sometimes after a medical or surgical ...

Coalition Life, a St. Louis pro-life group, had last summer petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the buffer law ...