Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:42:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: "Bourgeois Freedoms")


Carrol,

Do you feel that it is proper for anti-abortion protesters to block the
entrances to abortion clinics? Do you think they should go into abortion
clinics and disrupt the procedure? Do you think that they should cause a
mini-riot in the abortion clinics? Maybe they should kick in the heads of
the doctors? Or maybe kick in the heads of the women?

"Well, no," would be the answer sensible people would give. Women have a
right to an abortion. Indeed, it is a constitutional right. People
struggled for that right. Well, the same is true with freedom of speech. 
Fascists have a right to speak freely. It is a constitutional right. 
People struggled for that right. It is no more proper to cause a mini-riot
at a meeting of fascists than it is to stop a medical procedure. 

But I don't want to answer the question for you. 

Andrew Austin



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