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Enforce. that year that he made that testimony, 2007, massachusetts changed its law basically to make the whole thing simpler. and in massachusetts now, there is a yellow line painted on the ground outside clinic entrances. it marks a fixed zone. a fixed space. 35 feet from the clinic entrance 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 de...

>> 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 custody except for those the state actually killed. it was a senator, glen coffey who did not return my phone calls. they do a basic medical examiners report in every case. some cases the law says, which is determined to be in the public interest, they actually do a full autopsy. we found that since that law was passed in 2000, they've only done a full autopsy on 10 out of 50 inmates executed by the state. >> that n...

In massachusetts in 1994. lawmakers in massachusetts eventually established a 35-foot buffer zone, basically a protest-free zone around abortion clinics in part to deal with concerns like those. today the u.s. supreme court struck down the massachusetts law. joining us now, marty walz, former member of the massachusetts state legislature. she's now head of the planned parenthood league of massachusetts. thanks very much for being with us. >> great to be with you, rachel. >> first, let me ask you your reaction to today's ruling. a lot of people predicted the law might be in trouble. simply beca...

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People killed and the five people wounded in that onslaught that day, in massachusetts they tried their own massachusetts version of that colorado law, but the protests were so vociferous, local police said it was not a workable law for them. in testimony before the massachusetts legislature, seven years into massachusetts trying to enforce their version of the sort of bubble law, the man who's now boston's commissioner of police told the legislature the floating bubble law was basically impossible for police to enforce outside massachusetts clinics. he said, "i like to make the reference of b...