Word: clinically
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Most of the Harvard students who participated were facilitators, trained in crowd control and clinic defense. We were trained by the president of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for Women a week before O.R. came to Boston. We learned how to escort women through crowds and how to form a human chain to prevent O.R. from blocking access to the clinic, which is exactly what we did on November...
...understand Pinsker's concern for the privacy of the women attending the clinic. It was very upsetting to watch women being escorted into the clinic, sobbing as they cowered from the hundreds of screaming people around them...
...were there to prevent them from succeeding in either intimidating women or in closing the clinic. Pinsker must realize that no woman would have been able to enter the Crittendon clinic in Brighton if pro-choice forces had not been there to prevent O.R. members from blocking the entrance...
Pinsker suggested that we should let the police "scoop them up one-by-one and arrest them for breaking the law." Pinsker fails to see that this process would take hours, and would almost certainly result in the closing of the clinic...
...police would have been too busy with such individuals to prevent the others from blocking the entrance to the clinic and harassing women. The police we encountered on Saturday acquitted themselves admirably. They were patient, calm, and unbiased...