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the massachusetts state rep who helped write the buffer zone law this notion somehow we were eliminating these wonderful compassionate conversations between protesters and patients that persuaded women not to get abortions that s a fiction. what the protesters did was in very aggressive, even offensive ways, to interfere with and to intimidate women going into health clinics to exercise their right to choose. some anti-abortion protesters have, of course, even gone further and engaged in what the anti-defamation league has called america s forgotten terrorism, the murders of dr. george tiller and dr. david gun and dr. john britain as well as escorts and receptionists and clinics that have been bombed draw that connection to domestic terrorism. violence against civilians with the aim of making them so afraid they change their behavior. this is what the buffers were supposed to protect again against. they were intended to diffuse the interaction between protesters and clinics because
it s all too secret. joining us now, zeva branstetter for oklahoma s tulsa world newspaper. thank you for being with us. thanks, rachel. let me ask you an the autopsy issue. oklahoma used to do autopsy of prisoners it killed as a matter of course and then they just stopped. why did they stop? and what medical information were you able to access to do this story given that the autopsies stopped for so long? well, we don t know really why they stopped. so in 2000, they passed a requirement that the state of oklahoma had to autopsy, of course, anybody, any prisoner that died in state custody except for those the state actually killed. it was a senator, glen coffey who did not return my phone calls. they do a basic medical examiners report in every case. some cases the law says, which is determined to be in the public interest, they actually do a full autopsy. we found that since that law was passed in 2000, they ve only done a full autopsy on 10 out of 50 inmates executed by the s
that is basically a no-protest zone, a bubble like you ve got around polling places, like you ve got around military funerals. like the justices of the supreme court enjoy every day. that fixed zone was designed to keep those clinic entrances open and people going in and out of the clinics safe, after decades of murder and mayhem outside clinics just like that. today the supreme court overturned that massachusetts law. from inside their own protective buffer zone, the supreme court issued its majority ruling striking down the one outside abortion clinics. ruling written by chief justice john roberts chastises massachusetts for trying to stop them who, wish to converse with their citizens on public streets and sidewalks. massachusetts enacted this law, painted that stripe for a specific reason. there s been a lot of discussion today since this ruling this morning about what options the state has now that this law has been struck down. how are they going to respond? what are they going