The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Court on Friday unanimously ruled that a Pittsburgh ordinance that creates a 15-foot “buffer zone” outside of any hospital entrance where demonstrations may not take place is constitutional.
The case was brought by Nikki Bruni, a local leader of Forty Days for Life, a religious anti-abortion campaign. The group utilizes “sidewalk counseling” outside of a Pittsburgh Planned Parenthood location in an attempt to persuade clinic patients against receiving an abortion.
