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When Operation Rescue (O.R.) descended on the greater Boston area on Saturday, November 14, Beth L. Pinsker chose to "show [her] respect for the choices made by the women who will enter those clinics with silence" ("Protesting for Privacy," November...
...Pinsker seems to have missed our point. In the second sentence of her editorial, she refers to our activities as a "counter-protest." We were not there, as she claims, to "counter-protest," and we did not advertise our activities as any sort of protest. We went to the clinics to ensure that women were able to exercise their Constitutional rights...
...understand Pinsker's concern for the privacy of the women attending the clinic. It was very upsetting to watch women being escorted into the clinic, sobbing as they cowered from the hundreds of screaming people around them...
...were there to prevent them from succeeding in either intimidating women or in closing the clinic. Pinsker must realize that no woman would have been able to enter the Crittendon clinic in Brighton if pro-choice forces had not been there to prevent O.R. members from blocking the entrance...
...Pinsker suggested that we should let the police "scoop them up one-by-one and arrest them for breaking the law." Pinsker fails to see that this process would take hours, and would almost certainly result in the closing of the clinic...