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These doubts only increased in the wake of John Salvi's horrendous killing of Planned Parenthood receptionist Shannon Lowney (which took place at the very same clinic in front of which we prayed this weekend). I came to view the protests as counter-productive and even a bit intrusive. As we walked over to the clinic, passing an intimidating group of angry pro-choicers, I became even more nervous and confused. I leaned over and asked my roommate, a fellow protester, "Do we really have the right to be doing this...
...know the answer to the question I posed to my roommate. The answer is yes, we did have the right to pray outside the clinic. The reason for that answer can be found in the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment. The question I haven't yet answered is this one: Why are liberals praised as crusaders for justice when they exercise their First Amendment rights, while conservatives are condemned as self-righteous lunatics...
...life movement is regarded as a group of religious fanatics. I have to confess that before I went to the clinic, the image I had in my mind of a pro-lifer was a decidedly negative one. I imagined this person as a deeply religious, Southern white male, probably uneducated, probably racist and fairly low on the socioeconomic ladder. But when I looked around myself at the vigil, I saw people from all walks of life. Men and women, Blacks and whites, young and old were gathered together in prayer...
...will deny that the vast majority of pro-lifers are deeply religious. After all, the activity we were engaged in outside the clinic was prayer. But the religious don't have a monopoly on opposition to abortion. Courageous individuals like Nat Hentoff, a Jewish atheist, oppose abortion on philosophical grounds alone. If people of vastly different moral and religious beliefs can join together to fight abortion, I fail to see how it can constitute the imposition of any elaborate moral code...
...complex issue. The women who are faced with the question of whether or not to have an abortion often feel confused and deeply troubled. Before a woman chooses to have an abortion, she should stop and think long and hard about her choice. If a prayer vigil outside a clinic can make a woman think twice about what she's about to do, then it is a worthwhile and noble endeavor...