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Chicago ‘Bubble Zones’

CHICAGO — Opponents of abortion brought a federal complaint against Chicago's 2009 "bubble zone ordinance," which creates large buffer zones outside the entrances of medical clinics and health care facilities. In such zones, no one can come within eight feet of other individuals, without their consent, to hand them leaflets or engage in oral protest.

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