PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Northern New England is applauding approval by a Portland City Council committee to create a buffer zone around a Maine clinic to separate anti-abortion protesters from patients.
The council’s Public Safety, Health and Human Services Committee unanimously approved establishing a buffer zone on Tuesday after hearing from about 40 people who backed the measure, including some who said they’d been harassed and threatened by protesters.
No one at the meeting spoke against the proposal.
The proposal will go to the council for a final vote, tentatively on Nov. 18.
Planned Parenthood officials say the zone would safeguard patients.
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