safe environment for our patients and our staff. obviously the court disagreed but you observed into your piece leading into this, they didn t do anything about their own buffer zone law. so apparently they think they have one set of rules and women seeking health care should be subjected to a different set of rules. one thing that has been interesting to me looking at the history of how massachusetts has tried to deal with the issue about danger at clinics and protests at clinics, is that massachusetts did, in 2000, governor cellucci, republican governor, i believe, signed a law that created a different buffer zone, one more like colorado s which at this point is still standing according to the supreme court. that was sort of a moving buffer zone around individuals as they tried to get in and out of clinics rather than just a fixed space that was a no-protest area. why didn t that work? why wasn t that perceived to be working in massachusetts? that law didn t work because it allow
enforce. that year that he made that testimony, 2007, massachusetts changed its law basically to make the whole thing simpler. and in massachusetts now, there is a yellow line painted on the ground outside clinic entrances. it marks a fixed zone. a fixed space. 35 feet from the clinic entrance 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 the commissioners who, wish to converse with their cit
the clinic, retired colonel, james barrett, both of them were killed and others were wounded in that shooting. then six months later, a young man named john salvi shot seven people at two abortion clinics in brookline, massachusetts. he killed two of the people he shot. wounded others. some of the people who were witnesses to that shooting were people there at the clinic working as clinic escorts because of the hostile and intimidating and occasionally violent intense protests that had been happening regularly outside of those clinics. that day when john salvi went into the two clinics in brookline and opened fire and shot all the people, there were antiabortion protesters right outside the clinic when he did it. as he did it. at the brookline planned parenthood where he killed a 25-year-old receptionist that day, protesters outside the clinic, one of their regular tactics was filming people, filming everybody as they arrived to work at the clinic. filming people as they arrived to vol
in massachusetts in 1994. lawmakers in massachusetts eventually established a 35-foot buffer zone, basically a protest-free zone around abortion clinics in part to deal with concerns like those. today the u.s. supreme court struck down the massachusetts law. joining us now, marty walz, former member of the massachusetts state legislature. she s now head of the planned parenthood league of massachusetts. thanks very much for being with us. great to be with you, rachel. first, let me ask you your reaction to today s ruling. a lot of people predicted the law might be in trouble. simply because the court took it up. what do you think of their ruling today? well, of course, we were disappointed. we think the buffer zone law worked very well to maintain a safe environment for our patients and our staff. obviously the court disagreed but you observed into your piece leading into this, they didn t do anything about their own buffer zone law. so apparently they think they have one set of
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 to do next? he drops the duffel bag, pulls out a rifle, and i was stunned when i saw the rifle. before he hit he shoots the so you can enjoy your favorite music. mom! mom! mom! mom! mom! mom! hi mom. and a multi-flex sliding rear seat, for your passenger s comfort and your own. start your summer off right and get this 2014 chevy equinox ls for around $199 per month. find new roads at your local chevy dealer.