But protesting, displaying a sign, counseling, handing out a leaflet in front of a health care facility that is not constitutionally protected free speech. No doubt you ve guessed by now. The so called health care facilities that Colorado s law was designed to shield from protests, signs, counseling, leaflets, and the like are, of course, abortion clinics . The women entering these specially protected facilities are not sick, they are pregnant. The choices they are about to execute are not health care choices, but rather what abortion defender Ronald Dworkin, with remarkable candor, describes as choices for death.
Abortion is pure destruction.
It destroys the human beings whose lives are snuffed out in utero. It is destructive of the interests of women who are so very often, and in so many respects, truly abortion s secondary victims. And, as Scalia does not tire of remarking, it has proven to be destructive of the institutions of American democratic self government and, indeed, the basic integrity of our constitutional system. Free speech is only its most recent victim. Chief Justice Rehnquist s vote, no doubt, would have remained the same.