Pro-choice and pro-life advocates are assessing the impact of several recent moves by the federal government related to ...

The Supreme Court rejects challenges to abortion clinic buffer zone laws in Illinois and New Jersey, surprising observers.

Abortion opponents wanted the Supreme Court to scrap protest restrictions around clinics. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a case challenging an Illinois city’s abortion clinic buffer zone ...

Anti-abortion activists brought the challenge to the Supreme Court, arguing that their free speech rights were being violated ...

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 ...

Thomas, an appointee of former President George H.W. Bush, criticized the Supreme Court’s refusal to revisit Hill v. Colorado (2000), a precedent that upheld so-called free speech “buffer zones” ...

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

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear appeals challenging buffer zones outside abortion clinics, a legal tool used to protect patients from harassment. The decision maintains a precedent set in ...

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