Days after a longtime pro-life activist was arrested for allegedly threatening a worker at the state's lone abortion clinic, a St. Louis alderwoman says she will introduce legislation to create a buffer zone between protesters and patients.Christine Ingrassia, the alderwoman for the city's sixth ward, says she plans to introduce legislation next week modeled on a law in Colorado, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2014. The court struck down a 35-foot buffer in Massachusetts, but left intact one in Colorado that was about one-fourth of its size.
Ingrassia says she hopes to enshrine in city ordinances an eight-foot zone around the entrance and those spots within 100 feet of the doorway.…