There is an inherent abuse of justice in the new Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Law in Massachusetts, which effectively abridges the free speech of Pro-Lifers while protecting the money interests of Planned Parenthood and the Abortion Industry. This law, which specifically targets anti-abortion speech, increases the current 18 foot buffer zone to 35 feet. Gov. Patrick is expected to sign the law this week. This law is inherently anti-adoption, anti-child and anti-woman; anti-adoption because it prevents a woman from considering adoption as she comes face to face with her 'choice' as she enters the abortion clinic, anti-child because abortion prevents beautiful and healthy babies from being born, babies that could, and would, be adopted - or kept by their mother's when those mother's fall in love at first sight with their baby, and anti-woman because recent studies in Finland and California concluded that the death rate over time associated with abortion is actually three times higher than that of childbirth.
Existing Law protects all citizens. Certainly it is currently against the law to obstruct, intimidate or harass anyone, so why does Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry rate special legislation? A better question is why does Planned Parenthood get away with breaking the law by not reporting statutory rape?
In responding to historical injustices, pro-lifers do what people through the ages have done, fight for those who are unjustly sentenced to death, fight for the weak--the unborn, the elderly, the infirm. Persecuted groups of people have always waited for someone to speak in their defense, and this help has always been delayed or undermined by those who turn a blind eye or seek to keep the silence. This expanded buffer zone is the latest tool to keep eyes turned and tongues silent. If the Abortion Industry were at all interested in 'Choice', they would encourage a fair opportunity for their customers to make an informed choice on this vital matter, a choice that would explain all the risks, and a choice that could show, through an ultrasound, exactly what, or whom, were being aborted.
It was not the people of the Commonwealth who called for this law, it was the vested moneyed interests of Planned Parenthood and their proxies in the Legislature and Executive branches of our State Government who’ve created this special privilege and simultaneous denial of free speech. If Anti-abortion people break the existing laws, arrest us, but if we do not, then please allow us to pray on the sidewalk, there is still plenty of room for those seeking abortions to drive into the Pleasant St. parking lot of Planned Parenthood and enter the building from the main entrance in the back. Lest you call us right wing religious nut jobs for opposing this law, I'd point your attention to the fact that the ACLU of Massachusetts agrees with us on this point, and is against the buffer zone expansion "on the grounds that they (the so-called buffer zone laws) are unnecessarily restrictive of freedom of speech and perhaps more importantly, establish a dangerous precedent for the restriction of protest in other areas".
Speaking out for injustice has been a protected right in this country. Why should pro-lifers receive harsher restrictions than other groups?
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Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
MA State Constitution Preamble:
The preamble of the constitution bears some resemblance to the United States Constitution's in a few phrases near the end. It is as follows:“ The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity their natural rights, and the blessings of life: and whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to take measures necessary for their safety, prosperity and happiness.
The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in framing a constitution of government, to provide for an equitable mode of making laws, as well as for an impartial interpretation, and a faithful execution of them; that every man may, at all times, find his security in them.
We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other; and of forming a new constitution of civil government, for ourselves and posterity; and devoutly imploring His direction in so interesting a design, do agree upon, ordain and establish the following Declaration of Rights, and Frame of Government, as the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MA Constitution:
PART THE FIRST
A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Article I. All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. [Annulled by Amendments, Art. CVI.]
Article II. It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship. [See Amendments, Arts. XLVI and XLVIII.]
Article III. [As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality: Therefore, to promote their happiness and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily. ...
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