Reproductive rights activist Bill Baird: Supreme Court decision on abortion clinic buffer
'horrendous day' for women's rights
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In the meantime, Baird said he is urging operators of abortion clinics to form their own buffer zone by staging preemptive protests outside the clinics. "They should carry signs saying, "Abortion is a Woman's Right," he said.
On July 5, 1971, Baird said he and 30 supporters picketed his own clinic in Hempstead, N.Y., before the abortion foes showed up. When the police arrived the anti-abortion demonstrators, whom Baird likens to "terrorists," were forced to stay across the street.
Baird said abortion clinics should invoke the 1871 law that allows the use of federal marshals when the rights of a class of people are in jeopardy. Federal marshals should step in to escort women to the clinics - just as they did in the 1960s when black children need protection as they entered segregated schools in the South, Baird said.
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