Pro-Life Movement Wins 20-Year-Old Legal Battle
Thanks to a unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, pro-life demonstrators can stage protests outside abortion clinics without having to worry about being charged with racketeering.
After 20 years and three separate trips to the Supreme Court, pro-life activist Joseph Scheidler and Operation Rescue are out from under a campaign by the National Organization for Women to silence them and stifle their message. The unanimous ruling removes a nationwide injunction against the pro-life protesters. They can now go back to the clinics and demonstrate against the wholesale slaughter of unborn babies. (For more details about the case, see http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=10217)
Relying mostly on perjury to make their point, your friendly neighborhood feminists at NOW alleged that the demonstrators were "violent," and therefor guilty of "extortion" under the RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations). Finally even the liberal justices on the Supreme Court had enough. You know NOW put on a really poor show when Justice Stephen Breyer winds up reading a unanimous decision against them.
For people who always claim to believe in "open debate" and "the free exchange of ideas," NOW and the rest of the American Left have a bad habit of trying to win arguments by jailing, suing, firing, or assaulting their opponents. Heck, why try to win the argument when you can bust the other guy for hate speech, sue him for creating an uncomfortable workplace environment, get him fired for saying something you disagree with, or throwing pies at him when he tries to speak in public?
Is it possible that things are going to change in the court system--I mean, like the judges are going to wake up and realize they're not in Canada? Are John Roberts and Samuel Alito the guys who are going to start rolling down the curtain on 50 years of outrageous judicial activism? Are we going to see the end of NOW, the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood dictating to the country through the courts?
Meanwhile, the great State of South Dakota has enacted a near-total ban on abortion (the only exception being to save the life of the mother--and who knows how often that happens in reality?), and maybe, just maybe, a very dark chapter in American history may be coming to an end.
After 20 years and three separate trips to the Supreme Court, pro-life activist Joseph Scheidler and Operation Rescue are out from under a campaign by the National Organization for Women to silence them and stifle their message. The unanimous ruling removes a nationwide injunction against the pro-life protesters. They can now go back to the clinics and demonstrate against the wholesale slaughter of unborn babies. (For more details about the case, see http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=10217)
Relying mostly on perjury to make their point, your friendly neighborhood feminists at NOW alleged that the demonstrators were "violent," and therefor guilty of "extortion" under the RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations). Finally even the liberal justices on the Supreme Court had enough. You know NOW put on a really poor show when Justice Stephen Breyer winds up reading a unanimous decision against them.
For people who always claim to believe in "open debate" and "the free exchange of ideas," NOW and the rest of the American Left have a bad habit of trying to win arguments by jailing, suing, firing, or assaulting their opponents. Heck, why try to win the argument when you can bust the other guy for hate speech, sue him for creating an uncomfortable workplace environment, get him fired for saying something you disagree with, or throwing pies at him when he tries to speak in public?
Is it possible that things are going to change in the court system--I mean, like the judges are going to wake up and realize they're not in Canada? Are John Roberts and Samuel Alito the guys who are going to start rolling down the curtain on 50 years of outrageous judicial activism? Are we going to see the end of NOW, the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood dictating to the country through the courts?
Meanwhile, the great State of South Dakota has enacted a near-total ban on abortion (the only exception being to save the life of the mother--and who knows how often that happens in reality?), and maybe, just maybe, a very dark chapter in American history may be coming to an end.
