A sidewalk counselor does have to be careful in their approach.

But as earlier noted, the entire exception for sidewalk counselors was an effort to enhance petitioners' speech rights, and the "cease and desist" limitation must be assessed in that light.

Under his order, a "sidewalk counselor" seeking to dissuade a woman from having an abortion could approach her, but had to withdraw beyond 15 feet if she signaled a desire to end the encounter.

It found that as vehicles heading toward the clinic slowed to allow the protesters to move out of the way, "sidewalk counselors" would approach and attempt to give the vehicle's occupants anti-abortion literature.

Paul Schenck challenged a Federal District Court injunction that restricted "sidewalk counselors" from approaching abortion clinic patients and others with Bibles, tracts and pro-life messages.

She has become a "sidewalk counselor" for the antiabortion group.

She and Marcus also "began to pray outside abortion clinics and serve as sidewalk counselors to people considering abortion," according to an official biography that she no longer uses.

But these "sidewalk counselors," as they are known, must "cease and desist" and withdraw outside the zone if requested to do so, a requirement that the majority opinion today found permissible.

Many times the sidewalk counselors would approach black women and say, 'Why do you hate black people so much, you're letting these white doctors kill your black baby.'

I've had cases where myself and the woman I was escorting were shoved into a wall physically by an anti-choice sidewalk counselor.