More than 100 pro-life protesters showed up at the Government Center in Charlotte during a meeting on Monday night to show support for a pregnancy center’s work outside an abortion clinic along Latrobe Drive. Abortion clinic A Preferred Women’s Health Center of Charlotte has been targeted by pro-life protesters for years, but the demonstrations have recently become larger than usual. The city has revealed that it might put up no-parking signs along Latrobe Drive to maintain people’s access to the clinic and to prevent heavy traffic --- a move that anti-abortion camps say is unfair for them, The Charlotte Observer relays. According to Cities4Life, which contends that it is just opening other options to pregnant women, says putting no-parking signs would limit their ability to reach pregnant women. The group usually parks an RV outside the abortion clinic and offers ultrasound to the patients. …show more content…
She acknowledged the people’s right to freedom of speech, but noted that people are already blocking the streets. She added that “First Amendment rights have nothing to do with RV units.” A Preferred Women’s Health Center administrator Calla Hales also spoke up during the meeting, saying the protests are affecting all the businesses located on Latrobe Drive. She said free speech should not be given at the cost of others and that the right to parking spots is not provided for by the Constitution. In March 2015, Christian News Network reported that 23-year-old Lacey Deese was arrested and charged after attempting to run over pro-life campaigners ministering outside A Preferred Women’s Health. Patrick Courtney, a missionary, talked to her when she arrived with a friend, but she called them losers and drove her car directly in their direction several times. Police later tracked down Deese and arrested her. She was later charged with “reckless driving to
Death race 2000 PHILADELPHIA, PA - Tamika Ross, 26, is being held for trial on charges of the murder of Nathaniel Davis. Apparently Ross ran over Davis' hat with her car. When Davis confronted the driver a dispute erupted and Davis allegedly hit Ross. That's when the mother of five took matters into her own hands and ran him over with her car, killing him. When questioned, police quoted Ross as saying, "He hit me so I ran him down."
A controversial modern U.S. Supreme Court decision is the McCullen v. Coakley case. An initial ruling for this case in Massachusetts, “…has made it a crime for speakers to ‘enter or remain on a public way or sidewalk’ within 35 feet of an entrance, exit, or driveway of ‘a reproductive health care facility.’ The law applies only at abortion clinics…In effect, the law restricts the speech of only those who wish to use public areas near abortion clinics to speak about abortion from a different point of view” (American Bar Association). This decision in the case has called for it to be heard again by the U.S. Supreme court as it is now a question of (1) if it is a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendment, and (2) if a past decision in Hill v. Colorado permits this law and whether or not it should be overruled (American Bar Association).
who can speak and what they can say, the first Amendment rights of all of us are
In recent years the issue of abortion has sparked some civil disobedience in an effort to repeal the laws allowing abortion, by using sit-ins, prayer, etc. outside of the clinics. Some within this group feel they have the right to use any means necessary to stop the killing on unborn children by attacking Dr’s who perform abortions or bombing a clinic. They feel that a violent approach is the only way to solve a problem.
The picture of a bloody fetus torn apart by a surgeon's scalpel danced overhead in the cloudy sky. I stared at the swaying poster and at the tiny body lying in a green garbage bag. Around it, hundreds of similar signs filled the sky with bright words and colors as a huge mass of men, women and children paraded under them in a huge march. I stared at the marchers, disbelieving of the sight in front of me. They were the Pro-Lifers, marching in favor of banning abortion as a choice and a right for women.
Dating back to 1973, abortion has been one of the most actively argued topics in national politics. In the case of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy that is guaranteed by the 14th amendment also applied to a woman’s right to have an abortion. The process however did have limitations, as the court declared that abortion would no longer be legal when the fetus was “viable”, meaning able to live outside of the mother’s womb albeit with artificial assistance. (McBride) The case caused an uproar. Advocates for the decision rejoiced as the process was considered an essential component to the development of women's rights, while the opposition took to the streets in protest. The March for Life rally still takes place every year, where as recently as 2013, an estimated 650,000 women rallied together in Washington D.C. to protest the legality of abortion.
The Roe decision sparked nationwide protest, including a massive letter-writing campaign to the Supreme Court. Many Americans, including many Catholics and evangelical Protestants, believe that abortion is morally equivalent to infanticide. Others believe that life begins upon conception, and thus the right to life of the fetus trumps any other rights. Widespread protest over the decision resulted in the creation of the pro-life Movement, which organized large protest rallies outside the Supreme Court. Pro-life protesters frequently picket abortion clinics, distribute literature and other forms of persuasion to women considering abortion, and have promoted adoption efforts to steer women away from abortion. More extreme variants of the movement have also developed; abortion doctors have been the targets of harassment and even murder by individuals who claim that by taking the life of an abortion doctor they are actually saving the lives of many fetuses. However, anti-abortion activists who advocate or practice violence are consistently denounced by virtually all prominent pro-life groups. Some abortion opponents have claimed that there exists a link between abortion and breast cancer, and Texas has enacted a law requiring literature advancing this theory be distributed to women considering abortion; more credibly, abortion has been linked to persistent guilt feelings and other psychological problems, and to a higher risk of future infertility. Every year on the anniversary of the decision, protesters continue to demonstrate outside the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade)
Abortion is a very controversial word. It is not something to be taken lightly whether you are against it or for it. When I say for it, I mean pro choice. Pro-choice to me means being able to decide what I want to do with my body, I am not for abortion. Of course I would rather see a fetus come to life but that is not choice. Whichever your feelings are, there are reasons why the new Texas laws hurt women and could be a gateway to more of our rights being taken away.
Since these, decision made by the Supreme Court there has been many different groups protesting the rulings of 1973. Some of these groups protested in ways that were non-violent, while other groups went as far as bombing abortion clinics. Currently the latest issue facing the anti-abortion movement is the termination of late term pregnancies also called “partial birth abortions”.
forced to drive around and was raped so she should have known who it was.
Marinucci, Carla. "Huge Abortion Rights Rally: Hundreds of Thousands in D.C. Pledge to Take Fight to Polls." San Francisco Chronicle. 26 April 2004: A1.
With nearly 6 million abortions preformed from 1963 to 2003, it has to be restricted. Abortion does have its time and place but with “17 states set new limits on abortion; 24 did last year, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion rights nonprofit whose numbers are widely respected”(*). Abortion is almost more impossible and risky then its every been regardless of its legality. Instead of waiting, 24-hours clinics “In South Dakota, which has just one abortion clinic, lawmakers want to extend the required waiting period from two days to three for women seeking to end a pregnancy.” Rape victims are now prescribed the plan B pill , a type of emergency contraception to prevent pregnancy, but has to be taken within 72-hours. Restrictions such as the 20 week ban meaning that a woman after 20 weeks of conception, unless personal health issues arise, can terminate pregnancy. State laws depending on what state the woman is present in, may or may not be permitted to abortion in current state and can be recommended to another. Other restrictions can include mandatory ultrasound before the abortion procedure, can depend on how far away the provider is. Today, its now a 72 hour wait before one can abort. Also depends on how far away the abortion clinic is from the women 's home. No private insurance covers abortions and some clinics only except cash. Studies
Now, there is nothing wrong in having ordinance, which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest” (King 416)
Abortion is a controversial subject for those who feel strongly against abortion will try to convince women to change her mind. In the article, “My Abortion “, by Meaghan Winter explains that some clinics been shut down to end the process of abortion. She states, “But for all the regulations and protests despite, “safe, legal, and rare” and “abortion is murder,” abortion is part of our everyday experience” (Winter 1). The argument of abortion has been going on for 5 decades, but still the most controversial subject. In U.S anti- abortion protesters stand in front clinics, trained counselors try to engage with pregnant people. It states, “make their cases that they can help with alternatives to the abortion mostly, the counselors are ignored, but some women do stop, listen and change their minds” (life.org.nz). People, who support abortion rights, try to prevent the protesters not to engage with them, blocking access between the client and counselors. The main controversy of abortion is the “body right “argument, a person who does not want to have a baby, for any reason can abort it. This is may be true on the other hand, any rights she has, must be measured against the existence of the fetus.
The aftermath of Roe vs. Wade, when Jane Roe successfully had abortion legalized in various places, many abortion clinics all over the country sprung up. Clinics like Planned Parenthood and NARAL “sought to give the right meaning by ensuring both the newly legal abortion would be accessible and that women seeking abortions would not be victimized by inflated prices or untrained doctors performing unsafe office abortions” (Tribe 142). There are many reasons women seek abortion. Many pro-choice people say that a rape victim should not have to give birth to her attacker’s child, and to do so is attacking ...