# Abortion clinic "Buffer zones" in Massachusetts not legal, says unanimous SCOTUS **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 26, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-clinic-buffer-zones-in-massachusetts-not-legal-says-unanimous-scotus/691698 "2014-06-26T14:58:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 113
**Author:** ![Hector\_St\_Clare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@Hector\_St\_Clare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hector_St_Clare)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-clinic-buffer-zones-in-massachusetts-not-legal-says-unanimous-scotus/691698/113 "2014-06-26T19:59:00Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > For the same reasons that Westboro Baptist couldn’t be successfully sued for emotional distress when they picketed Corporal Matthew A. Snyder’s funeral. > > That pesky First Amendment. I actually do think Westboro Baptist should have been sued- it violates the entire purpose of a funeral to have people protesting it. On top of that, of course, whatever your feelings on the morality of homosexuality, it certainly doesn’t inherently harm anyone else (except arguably the person themselves). The same can’t be said of abortion: those of us on the pro-life side believe it causes lethal harm to a third party. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-clinic-buffer-zones-in-massachusetts-not-legal-says-unanimous-scotus/691698)._