A midnight battle determines who gets the bullhorn outside Charlotte abortion clinic

When two sides often face off at one of Charlotte’s abortion clinics, only one group gets to use a bullhorn.

For that right, they need an amplified noise permit from the city. And for a decade, anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights groups have waged fierce late night battles to get them.

For the last six years, several nights a week, clinic escort Jennifer Vollmer has bombarded the city with emails requesting a noise permit. Starting at 11:52 p.m. each night, she sends the first of 130 emails to the city, all in the hopes one will land in the city’s email inbox at midnight – not a millisecond later.

As Vollmer sends her emails, her opponent, a group called Cities4Life, is doing the same thing, flooding the city with electronic requests for its own noise permit.

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