February 19, 1997

February 19, 1997—League director Joe Scheidler fields calls from multiple media outlets looking for comments on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York. The high court upheld fixed buffer zones at abortuaries, but rejected a “floating” bubble zone as a violation of free speech. But three years later the Court would uphold an 8-foot floating bubble zone in Hill v. Colorado, laying the groundwork for Chicago’s 2009 bubble zone ordinance.