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you are not getting it. they weren't just screaming and holding signs. the buffer zones were needed because there was physical assault going on. you have to go to court and testify to prove assault, even if you can get the local DA to make the charge. So now you miss work to get a perfectly legal procedure, get assaulted on the way into the clinic, take more time off to file a report with police and go to court and testify. In what world is this ever going to happen? The assaulters were perfectly comfortable physically bullying women knowing that they were never going to get charged. And they believed with complete conviction that the more they pushed the envelope, the more likely it is that a woman will walk away. and for several decades the behavior escalated until people died.

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Of course the other factor that 'free screech' interpretation doesn't take into account; the anti-choice crowd strategy was to be as disruptive and obnoxious as possible so the community would revoke the license of the clinic. They understood perfectly well that NIMBY was in full effect. Making neighboring businesses clients walk the gauntlet of slut shame was a sure way of shutting down a clinic.

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