A substantial part of the population--no less intelligent or insightful than the pro-choice activists--condemns abortion and believes that aborting a growing, moving fetus which has not yet emerged from the womb amounts to taking that life in the same way that suffocating a newborn child would amount to murder. For these people--and I count myself among them--there is no choice to be made. Peaceful demonstrations by anti-abortionists in front of churches and clinics, even those targeted at specific individuals, serve a purpose in voicing these concerns--a purpose that should be protected by law.
The staff is hypocritical in advocating women's right to choose abortion but not conceding--indeed not aggressively defending--the constitutional right of others to protest that choice in a way that does not physically harm their opponents.
--Jenny E. Heller '01