ACLJ Fights Unconstitutional Buffer Zone Outside Louisville Abortion Clinic

Our clients, Ed Harpring and Mary Kenney, have been sidewalk counseling outside a Louisville abortion clinic for decades. Unfortunately, Louisville put buffer zones around their abortion clinics, even though the Supreme Court ruled in McCullen v. Coakley that buffer zones outside abortion clinics violated the free speech of pro-life advocates. That’s why the ACLJ filed a lawsuit in 2021 on behalf of Ed Harpring and Mary Kenney, asking a federal district court to enjoin Louisville’s new buffer zone law as violative of both the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. We also asked that our clients be granted a preliminary injunction, allowing them to exercise their free speech rights until the court issues a final ruling on the constitutionality of the ordinance.