Kentucky County Opposes Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Challenge

Anti-abortion protesters’ lawsuit challenging an ordinance that created a buffer zone around a Louisville clinic should end early because the law doesn’t interfere with their rights, a local government says in a federal court filing in Kentucky.

The ordinance is a reasonable time, place, and manner restriction that doesn’t violate or substantially burden the protesters’ First Amendment free speech, assembly, and religious rights, the Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government told the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.

Sisters for Life Inc., its founder and president Angela Minter, and Kentucky Right to Life Association Inc. sued Louisville in early ...