pro abortion feminist leader endorses trashing of free speech rights arrested for defying judge s order at abortion protest rally the miami herald april melbourne florida circuit judge robert mcgregor s order prohibits anti abortion pickets within feet of the property line of aware woman center for choice even across the street they may not display pictures of dead fetuses or sing or chant loud enough to be heard by patients inside the clinic the protesters say the ruling all but wiped out the first amendment to the constitution this is our sidewalk said joe carroll a landscaper who marched with his children mary grace and john i am not a rescuer i am not a trespasser it s just that this is my sidewalk i am not really protesting abortion we are protesting denial of our rights of assembly religion speech this judge is trashing the constitution the children s grandmother led them away sobbing as carroll and his father were arrested outside the clinic eleanor smeal president of the washington d c based feminist majority foundation called for the florida legislature and congress to pass laws as tough as the judge s order which covers only brevard and seminole counties this cannot go on she said this is not freedom of speech this is total psychological warfare with violence it is ridiculous to have to ask clinics to go court by court to get protection
