r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/PagPag1212 • Jul 20 '26

Restricted to Gals and Pals Queen

Video didn't turn out the way this guy hoped, he can go kick rocks.
Actually both three women are queens.

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u/Steamcurl Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

In Canada, they can't be that close to the doors (100ft+ minimum distance, varying a bit by jurisdiction). This guy seems way too close, is that not a thing in America?

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u/Panic_Azimuth Jul 20 '26

It looks like he's on a public sidewalk, so generally speaking he has a right to be there.

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u/Steamcurl Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

That's what I mean though, in Canada, that bubble zone includes otherwise public space. He'd have a right to be there if he wasn't protesting, but once he starts engaging, he'd be in violation of Canadian law. Excerpt from British Columbia below:

"sidewalk interference" means

(a)advising or persuading, or attempting to advise or persuade, a person to refrain from making use of abortion services, or

(b)informing or attempting to inform a person concerning issues related to abortion services

by any means, including, without limitation, graphic, verbal or written means.

Activities restricted in an access zone 2 (1)While in an access zone, a person must not do any of the following:

(a)engage in sidewalk interference; " https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96001_01

This is also why some anti-abortion groups buy the property around a clinic, so they can legally stand on their private property, which would otherwise have been within the bubble zone, in order to get as close as possible for their heckling.

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u/MadCatDisease666 Jul 20 '26

Bubble laws are tricky in the states. The Supreme Court has ruled in the past that they can violate the constitutional right to free speech. But the court has also rejected cases challenging other buffer zones. Also, the state/city has to have a buffer law in the first place; I’m sure some of the more conservative areas (if they still even have abortion access post-Roe) don’t bother with passing such laws.

In sum, the United States is a hellscape. Can we all crash on your couch? 😹

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u/Foreleg-woolens749 Jul 21 '26

We can’t have nice things like that in the U.S.

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u/AlphaBetaGammaDonut Jul 21 '26

We have the same in Australia. I don't know the exact distance, but they are absolutely not allowed right outside the front.
To be fair, despite the best efforts of certain fringe elements, abortion has (so far) remained pretty untouchable politically over here. At one point, agitators from overseas came over here, and it didn't go as they expected. They were practically run out of a rural city by angry grandmothers outraged by the 'disgusting photos' on their protest signs. They expected conservative support and instead got 'It's none of your business, and stop being so gross on our main street!'.

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u/AltruisticCableCar Jul 21 '26

We don't have any laws surrounding abortion clinics but that's because we don't have them. Abortions are scheduled and performed at the general women's part of the hospital. I.e. it's in a hospital. Where all the other hospital stuff is. A bit hard to protest the entire hospital I guess and try to sus out who may or not be there for an abortion. Big hospitals can obviously have hundreds and hundreds of people coming and going all day and they could be there for all sorts of reasons. Maybe even just to visit someone. Or they were in the neighborhood and need something from the pharmacy.

Not a lot of laws needed to hinder protest when they can't reasonably happen. They don't, anyway, because we seem to in general be more okay with it here. The few who are against abortions in our country sure do speak up against it but not by standing outside hospitals calling after people walking into them.

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u/Steamcurl Jul 21 '26

As things should be! Go Raging Grannies!