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A coalition of 21 states, including Connecticut, was announced Monday to protect the reproductive rights of women.

The massachusetts state rep who helped write the buffer zone law this notion somehow we were eliminating these wonderful compassionate conversations between protesters and patients that persuaded women not to get abortions that's a fiction. what the protesters did was in very aggressive, even offensive ways, to interfere with and to intimidate women going into health clinics to exercise their right to choose. some anti-abortion protesters have, of course, even gone further and engaged in what the anti-defamation league has called america's forgotten terrorism, the murders of dr. george tiller ...

It's all too secret. joining us now, zeva branstetter for oklahoma's "tulsa world" newspaper. thank you for being with us. >> thanks, rachel. >> let me ask you an the autopsy issue. oklahoma used to do autopsy of prisoners it killed as a matter of course and then they just stopped. why did they stop? and what medical information were you able to access to do this story given that the autopsies stopped for so long? >> well, we don't know really why they stopped. so in 2000, they passed a requirement that the state of oklahoma had to autopsy, of course, anybody, any prisoner that died in state c...

That is basically a no-protest zone, a bubble like you've got around polling places, like you've got around military funerals. like the justices of the supreme court enjoy every day. that fixed zone was designed to keep those clinic entrances open and people going in and out of the clinics safe, after decades of murder and mayhem outside clinics just like that. today the supreme court overturned that massachusetts law. from inside their own protective buffer zone, the supreme court issued its majority ruling striking down the one outside abortion clinics. ruling written by chief justice john r...

Interesting to me looking at the history of how massachusetts has tried to deal with the issue about danger at clinics and protests at clinics, is that massachusetts did, in 2000, governor cellucci, republican governor, i believe, signed a law that created a different buffer zone, one more like colorado's which at this point is still standing according to the supreme court. that was sort of a moving buffer zone around individuals as they tried to get in and out of clinics rather than just a fixed space that was a no-protest area. why didn't that work? why wasn't that perceived to be working in...