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Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
1. Only up to the edge of public property. We could 'counsel' prospective customers from the sidewalk.
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 11:32 AM
Jul 2014

Trespassing is still trespassing.

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
2. Cute, but most HLs are in shopping center with big parking lots
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 11:32 AM
Jul 2014

and those lots are a natural buffer against such interference.

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
5. Parking lots and the sidewalk adjacent to stores in a mall/shopping ctr are usually private.
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 01:26 PM
Jul 2014

The sidewalk out by the public street is where you'd have to be in most cases. Not that it means you shouldn't stand there and protest, just that it's probably a lot further away from the door of the store than the typical distance where abortion protesters are allowed since clinics generally aren't in malls.


Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
7. Yes, the mall would have to block or give permission to its tenants to do so.
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 01:48 PM
Jul 2014

Either way, there's a good chance that protesters will be escorted back to the public way and be further from the store than the typical anti-abortion protesters are from clinics.

unblock

(54,071 posts)
3. the best idea is to find a rich donor willing to pay for a huge parking lot in front of a clinic.
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 11:35 AM
Jul 2014

moving the property line out is the best "buffer zone".

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