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To: JohnM who wrote (132072)	8/12/2005 8:46:39 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

Blocking access to clinics endangered the exercise of that right. The right to free speech is actually written into the Constitution, as you know. I am not arguing that this makes it superior to any other right found within the Constitution, and won't even get into whether or not abortion ought to be a right, or even is. But I will point out that when rights collide, they have to be balanced against each other. The right to free speech may be regulated as to time, place and manner, but cannot be abridged. "Blocking", per se, isn't "free speech". Standing around yelling and holding signs is, and, as such, may not be abridged.