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Governments sometimes take measures designed to afford legal protection of access to abortion. Such legislation often seeks to guard facilities which provide induced abortion against obstruction, vandalism, picketing, and other actions, or to protect patients and employees of such facilities from threats and harassment. Another form such legislation sometimes takes is in the creation of a perimeter around a facility, known variously as a "buffer zone", "bubble zone", or "access zone". This area is intended to limit how close to these facilities demonstration by those who oppose abortion can approach. Protests and other displays are restricted to a certain distance from the building, which varies depending upon the law, or are prohibited altogether. Similar zones have also been created to protect the homes of abortion providers and clinic staff. Bubble zone laws are divided into "fixed" and "floating" categories. Fixed bubble zone laws apply to the static area around the facility itself, and floating laws to objects in transit, such as people or cars.〔Center for Reproductive Rights. (n.d.). (Picketing and Harassment ). Retrieved December 14, 2006.〕 ==Laws in Australia== Currently, the state of Tasmania is the only state or territory in Australia to enforce buffer zones. In 2013, the Tasmanian Parliament passed the ''Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Act'' which enforces 'access zones' of a radius of 150 metres from premises at which abortions are provided.〔Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Act 2013 (Tas) s 9(1) "()."〕 Behaviour prohibited within access zones includes: besetting, harassing, intimidating, interfering with, threatening, hindering, obstructing or impeding a person; protests in relation to terminations that are able to be seen or heard by a person accessing a clinic; footpath interference; and intentionally recording a person accessing a clinic without their consent.〔Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Act 2013 (Tas) s 9(1) "()."〕 In 2005, the Australian Democrats proposed a law to create buffer zones around clinics in the state of Victoria.〔Heinrichs, Paul. (August 28, 2005). "(Democrats push for clinic law )." ''The Age.'' Retrieved December 17, 2006.〕 However, these attempts were unsuccessful as buffer zones were not included in Victoria's ''Public Health and Wellbeing Act''.〔Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 (Vic) "()."〕 As of November 2015, legislation has been passed〔Victoria passes legislation to limit protests outside abortion clinics. The Guardian "()"〕 to add 150 meter buffer zones around abortion clinics in Victoria. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Legal protection of access to abortion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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