Supreme Court turns away bid to overturn 25-year-old decision on abortion clinic buffer zones
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away two appeals from abortion rights opponents asking the justices to overrule a 25-year-old decision that allowed for buffer zones around abortion clinics, leaving that ruling in place.
In declining to wade into the court fight, the justices will not add a second abortion-related case to their current docket, following two terms in which the issue was before them. Last June, the court rebuffed two separate challenges involving abortion — the first over access to a popular pill used in medication abortions, and the second over how Idaho's near-total ban on the procedure interacts with a federal emergency care law.
In June 2022, the court's conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade. Citing that landmark decision, anti-abortion rights groups had called on the Supreme Court to reverse its 2000 ruling in the case Hill v. Colorado, which involved buffer zones outside facilities to perform abortions.
