Pro-choice enthusiasts got a smackdown from the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, June 26th. The highest court in the land struck down a Massachusetts law prohibiting protests in a 35-foot zone surrounding state abortion clinics as unconstitutional. Conservatives and liberals each have their ideas about the biases inherent in the Court, but it’s always nice when our system of checks and balances works the way it’s supposed to.
Of course, pro-choice liberals don’t see it that way in this case. The self-proclaimed party of free speech continually finds themselves on the wrong side of our most basic rights, and their arguments for this buffer zone are just more logs on the fire. Created in 2007, the law was intended to cut down on the amount of harassment clinic customers faced as they brought their unborn babies in for evacuation. Some supporters of the ban pointed to a rash of shootings in 1994 as reason enough for the law, but a 35-foot zone of silence would have done absolutely nothing to prevent those tragedies.
The law was brought to court by First Amendment supporters and pro-life advocates who wished to speak to women going into the clinics. What gets lost in the coverage of abortion clinic protests is that many young girls never really get the other side of the story. They don’t know to a certainty what having an abortion entails. They don’t know they have other, much more attractive options. To put criticism in its fair place, of course, many of the protestors don’t do their cause any justice; screaming like a banshee and waving photographs of abortion aftermaths changes about as many minds as the Westboro Baptist Church.
- See more at: http://www.leanrightamerica.org/health/supreme-court-rules-against-massachusetts-abortion-clinic-law/#sthash.wYJPZmeZ.dpuf
