22 Jan 2014 7:20 pm
They are interfering with women trying to access a legal medical procedure.RichClem » 22 Jan 2014 4:33 pm » wrote:I would agree that if demonstrators are interfering with public figures, with business, with ordinary citizens, they should be "zoned."
But not simply for convenience or to hide their speech.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that the state of Mass. enacted the restrictions in 2007 because “there was a considerable history of disturbances and blocking the entrance.” The state “doesn’t know in advance who are the well-behaved people and who are the people who won’t behave well . . . and after the disturbance occurs, it’s too late,” she said.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that when the court in 2011 upheld the right of members of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., to bring even outrageous protests to the funeral of a military veteran, the court noted that the protesters could be kept away from the front of the church.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... story.html
Two receptionists were shot and killed and five others wounded by one of these anti-abortion activists in two clinic attacks in Massachusetts in 1994.