This injunction creates "speech-free bubble zones" of more than 50 feet on either side of the clinic, making it impossible for our clients' pro-life message to be heard or for women to be counseled to save their babies. They have no place to go where they can be seen by people entering"'the clinic except across the highway, where they cannot be heard.
This injunction is based on nothina but phony complaints that the protesters were 'noisy" and "obstructive." Planned Parenthood has no real evidence to support this claim.
And, oddly enough, an earlier injunction keeping protesters 15 feet from clinic entrances and driveways was in place for seven years without any complaints of 'noise" or "obstruction."
The onlv reason Planned Parenthood demanded a new and even more repressive injunction is that it wanted our pro-life clients to be so far away that their messaqe could not be heard. But an injunction which makes it impossible to be heard is by definition unconstitutional, as several Supreme Court cases have made clear.
We are hopeful that the Second Circuit or, if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court, will reverse this injunction and restore our clients' constitutional right to effective protest of abortion.
A Courageous and Holy Priest Under Attack
We have also accepted a new, very important pro-life case involving the right of pro-lifers to protest abortion on so- called "private property.' This case, in which we are co-counsel with a local pro-life attorney, involves an abortion mill in an office complex in Long Island, NY. The complex is open to every other member of the general public -- except a holy and courageous Catholic priest and some fellow pro-lifers.
--- -Thts-peaceful --and--ki-ndly-priimt--h-ci-s -been-vem-y--effr--@ive at quietly persuading women not to let the notorious Dr. Moshe Hachamovitch butcher their babies in late-term, second trimester abortions at his clinic on the premises.
Rachamovitch has been named in almost thirty separate malpractice suits alleging negligence and wrongful death in the operation of his chain of abortion clinics. Hachamovitch has been implicated in a total of six patient deaths.
Hachamovitch has sued the priest we represent based on a theory of 'trespass' -- even though the same priest was twice acquitted of trespass in criminal court. Having failed in his