intense interactions filled with rhetoric has led to an atmosphere where some will leap to violence to make their point and the radical edge of the anti-abortion movement hails those that commit that violence at morally justified heros. people who shoot doctors and bomb clinics and try to bomb clinics and set clinics on fire, they are not run-of-the-mill, crazy killers and vandals of the kinds who commit other sorts of crimes. they re part of a movement that not only does this stuff but celebrates this stuff and supports one another when they do these things. that is a world in which buffers are essential. in 1994 a chief justice rehnquist wrote, the first amendment does not demand that patients at a medical facility undertake her culen efforts to escape protests. two lower courts ruled against miss mccullen finding ample means of communicating. this is a world that lives in a court nicer and sweeter than
he killed the receptionist and wounded others and went to another clinic and killed a second receptionist and wounded more. he was convicted of first-degree murder and doing double life. massachusetts said we have to do more than send the killer away. we have a problem. a 1996 frontline documentary showed these scenes of chaos in front of women s clinics in brookline. the legislature tried to balance the first amendment rights of protesters and the privacy rights of patients. they ended up giving clinics a 35-foot buffer zone, something the rehnquist court found constitutional. when the roberts court ended its session it found that buffer to be a violation of the first amendment in part because of the lead plaintiff 77 elmore mccullen who said having to stand 35 feet away from the door i m limited as far as my message of caring can go. there are many anti-abortion activists who are kind and nonthreatening like miss mccullen, peaceful prayer vigils common in front of clinics but