blog 8: media law

    In 2009, the Massachusetts state created a 35-foot buzzer zone around the abortion clinic's entrance, exits and driveways. Protesters, especially those who engage in "Pro-life counseling" says this violated the First Amendment it limited free speech too broadly.

    Personally, I don't think what Massachusetts state did was wrong, given the fact that those people often suffer from harassment, insults, etc. What the government did was to give those people a private space, an area where they don't have to hear those dirty words. I don't think the government is wrong at all.

link:  http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2013/2013_12_1168