http://news.yahoo.com/in-the-abortion-wars--a-new-ground-zero-180231913.html
First, go read this article because I will not do it justice. It goes into detail on how the daily routine goes at this abortion clinic and the sidewalk across the street. Buffer zones are used to separate protesters from patients at abortion sites, but this summer the Supreme Court declared a buffer zone in Massachusetts unconstitutional, and over the past few months almost all of the zones have been lifted. This keeps the war of abortion going. These protestors are found at a lot of abortion clinics with different signs that say, "Real Men protect women and children, Babies are murdered at 443 congress street." The people outside of the clinic said, "No, we've never had anyone turn around, so why am I here? When I had my first abortion, if there had been people standing outside like this, I would have run to them. So here I am." A volunteer at clinic said,"They would stand on both sides of the sidewalk, one line with their backs to the building, the other with their backs to the street, so that patients had to walk between them. They would ask patients questions: 'Are you having an abortion? Can I talk to you? Can I help you?' By the time the patients got insde they would sometimes end up upstairs at the desk in tears."
Do you think that every state should have a law that uses buffer zones? Is it disrespectful for the protestors to question the patients like they do? What are your thoughts on the war over abortion?
I think that it is wrong for somebody to go up to a patient and ask if they are having an abortion, that is none of there business. Everybody has a right to privacy.
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