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Clinic advocates urge council to strengthen protections for noise‑sensitive healthcare areas
Summary
Volunteers and observers at A Woman’s Choice clinic told the Raleigh City Council that proposed changes to the noise ordinance could weaken protections for patients and staff; they urged the council to treat healthcare facilities as noise‑sensitive, to apply the same standards to amplified and unamplified sound and to improve enforcement.
Speakers representing A Woman’s Choice clinic and volunteer legal observers urged the Raleigh City Council to preserve and strengthen noise protections for healthcare facilities during a public hearing on a proposed amplified‑sound ordinance.
Gabrielle Long, community outreach organizer and patient advocate for A Woman’s Choice, told the council that “excessive noise, especially amplified shouting, continues to reach well inside our building, disrupting care and creating distress for our patients in vulnerable moments.” She asked the council to “recognize health care facilities as noise sensitive areas within…
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