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Need help with Planned Parenthood protestors : WitchesVsPatriarchy

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Hello, the office I work with shares a parking lot with a planned parenthood office and for the 12 years I've worked here they have protested directly in front of our small, professional, super boring office as the planned parenthood doesn't get any cars or foot traffic passing by 🙄🙄🙄I've recently moved to a new office near the front of the building and now if I open the window I can hear them chanting and praying THROUGH MY HEADPHONES. I asked them nicely to quiet down, got ignored, threatened to call the police, screamed obscenities out the window, then actually called the police, all to no avail. I just found out my boss has even called city hall over the years and as long as they are on the public sidewalk nothing can be done. This is so annoying on any level but I'm furious as I'm working and trying to provide for my two actual alive not hypothetical children and they're fricking it up, making life worse for people not better, and I'm so opposed to everything they stand for. Any suggestions, any help?

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Depending what state this is in, the protesters might be barred from protesting directly outside the Planned Parenthood building by buffer zone laws and that's why they're outside her office:

States have taken two approaches designed to protect abortion providers. Some states have enacted laws similar to the federal FACE Act that prohibit specific activities such as vandalism or obstruction at clinics. Other states have limited protests aimed at clinic patients by either creating "buffer" zones around clinics that bar protestors entirely or establishing floating "bubble zones" of several feet around a person who is within a specific distance of a clinic; protesters are prohibited from crossing into that "bubble zone" without the person's consent. In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Massachusetts law that placed a 35-foot buffer zone around clinic entrances. The impact of this ruling on the New Hampshire law is still to be determined, but the decision did not immediately affect the Court's 2000 ruling that upheld Colorado's floating "bubble zone" law.

So, for example, in Colorado protestors can't come within "8-ft. zone within 100 ft. of door", i.e. they can't come within 8 feet of a person who is 100 feet away from the door of the clinic. That could be why the protestors are confined to that part of the car park outside the next door office building.

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