Portland, Maine City Council to weigh in on abortion clinic
buffer zone   November 18, 2013, 9:20 pm Print Article  (NECN:
Amy Sinclair) - The City Council in Portland, Maine is expected
to vote Wednesday night on whether or not to create a "buffer
zone" around a clinic where abortions are performed.  The
demonstrators say they have the constitutional right to speak
out against abortion on any city sidewalk, but patients at
Planned Parenthood say it's not free speech -- it's harassment.
The protesters have been a fixture on the 400 block of Congress
Street every Friday morning since the summer of 2012.  Carrying
signs depicting developing and sometimes mutilated fetuses, they
say their goal is to discourage women from seeking an abortion
at the clinic upstairs.  "The women are murderers," said Leslie
Sneddon, holding a sign declaring 'Babies are Murdered Here.'
"If she's not confronted before she dies and doesn't have the
blood of Jesus Christ covering her, she will go to Hell."
College senior Deena Metzler