Despite the horrifying experience of women across the country looking to get birth control, trying to obtain an abortion, or simply suffering complications from a baby they chose to keep, the Supreme Court feels protecting women should take a backseat for the protesters' right to have "personal, caring, consensual conversations" with patients.
When it takes six escorts to get a patient through the door; when picketers are screaming racist and sexist epithets; when clinic patients and workers have been the targets of arson, bombings and shootings for decades, there's nothing "personal, caring and consensual" about it.
We're calling on Massachusetts, where this buffer zone was just overturned, to push through new legislation to protect women from harassment and set a model for other state legislatures to follow!
Why is this important?
Nearly 90 percent of abortion providers have had patients fear for their safety, and 80 percent have had to call the police because of safety concerns.
