Supreme Court wades into Abortion issue AGAIN

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

if these protester's limited their activities to SPEECH alone, this would be a non issue. Unfortunately they do NOT limit their activity to speech alone (protected or otherwise) When patients are accosted, shoved, beat unconscious, then these nutjobs SHOULD BE PROSECUTED, but every case that broaches the subject of anti-abortion protesters seems to let these folks off seemingly without a scratch...in fact the ban on protesting has been lifted so that now protesters can be closer than ever as they exercise their FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS which can include blocking the doorway etc....this just makes me sick because at NO OTHER CLINIC do you have people interfering with patients or their caregivers

I may be wrong, but I have never heard of anyone beating anyone unconscious in such a situation that was not prosecuted. In fact, I seem to rememeber the prosecution of several people who bombed clinics, etc. So, I think that might be hyperbole