• Supreme Court Considers Legality Of Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones
    3 replies, posted
[URL="http://www.npr.org/2013/12/20/255870199/supreme-court-considers-legality-of-abortion-clinic-buffer-zones"]NPR Link[/URL] [quote=NPR]Fourteen years ago, the court upheld Colorado's 8-foot "floating" buffer zones around individuals to protect patients and staff entering and exiting these clinics. Since then, buffer zones have prevented demonstrators from closely approaching patients and staff without permission. But the issue is back before a different and more conservative Supreme Court. The Massachusetts law prohibits anyone from standing within 35 feet of the entrance to a reproductive health care facility where abortions take place. That distance, the length of a school bus, takes the average person about 7 seconds to walk. And, according to the law, anyone can walk through it — as long as their purpose is to enter the facility or cross to the other side of the zone. [B]'Just Talk A Minute'[/B] The zone is marked by a painted yellow line, and anybody who remains standing in it is asked to move outside the line. Lead plaintiff Eleanor McCullen is a member of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue and a part-time prison chaplain. She looks like a typical cheery grandmother, and has been standing outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Boston every Tuesday and Wednesday for the past 13 years. As McCullen describes it, she asks women to "just talk a minute before you rush in. You rush in so quickly, and then you come out in tears." She tells women: "There's another option other than taking the child, the small boy or girl, from the womb." And she says she and other Operation Rescue volunteers have provided housing, medical help, even baby showers to help women who decide not to have an abortion. On her refrigerator, she keeps photos of all of the babies she says she has saved. But McCullen says the buffer zone violates her First Amendment rights and prevents her from communicating with complete effectiveness. "It's America," she says. "I should be able to walk and talk gently, lovingly, anywhere with anybody."[/quote]
There's basically 3 reasons when we condone an abortion. a) There was something physically wrong with the baby. Either some negative mutation, issues with the gestation etc, which would prevent the child from living a normal life. b) The baby creates an unnecessary risk for the mother (serious/permanent injury or death) c) The parents know they aren't currently in a state where they could support a child. And if the abortion comes under these three reasons, grandma, you have no business trying to talk anybody out of it. Regards, a concerned doctor.
Yea, how dare the Supreme Court interfere with people's interfering with other's right to privacy.
Seems pretty pointless if its that small.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.