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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

City Council committee creates quiet zone around West Loop abortion clinic

An anti-abortion protester (left) and a supporter of abortion rights at a rally in Millennium Park in May 2022 in advance of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the decision that had established a federal right to an abortion. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times (file))

Women would no longer be forced to endure intimidation and abuse from bullhorn-bearing protesters on their way into a West Loop abortion clinic under an anti-noise crackdown advanced Monday by a City Council committee.

At the behest of Planned Parenthood and local Ald. Bill Conway (34th), the Committee on Public Safety backed establishing a “quiet zone” around the abortion clinic operated by Family Planning Associates at 659 W. Washington Blvd.

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