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We also have tremendous support from our local police departments. so i was in touch with them today, and we know we will have increased law enforcement presence at our health centers, but that's not really a long-term solution. you don't want to solve this problem by having police there constantly when women are coming in for health care. what we're doing is reviewing the laws that are already on the books that we might be able to use, as well as what new laws we might be able to craft. we have great support from our governor deval patrick and attorney general martha coakley as well as our le...

Yet some are arguing this is a violation of free speech for protesters. >> i think what ties together a lot of these cases is you have conservative legal groups that are strategizing to use the court and to specifically use the first amendment as a weapon against laws that protect workers, against laws that protect access to clinics. what all of these cases have in common is they're very much part of this conservative legal rev lux. in the case of this particular buffer zone law, in 2000 the supreme court ruled you can have safe protective zones around clinics because of the ways clinics are t...

Thank you so much for being here. >> thank you so much, melissa. the utterly ridiculous thing is they say we can get together and actually comply with the law, you know. butterfield actually wrote the government and said we can do better than this. 700,000 people, republicans, democrats, black, white, will be left without a district representative. it's just wrong. 300 days in a time the congress will be dealing with the vra bills, farm bills and all that impacts that particular district. it took us 90 years, melissa, from 1900 to 1990 to get representation it's a crazy little district. worth ...

They're down with the november election. we checked. that does seem to be true. why would the candidates support this timing? >> it was only permanent interest. it doesn't matter if someone wants to, you know, even stay. all of us don't want to stay in bondage. what we want is constitutional representation. so that doesn't matter. he's called to gronch for the best interest of the people, not to pick out two or three people and then decide to i pleament something that's going to cause taxation. we have the worst redistricting law since the 19th century. we've passed the worst repression law si...

Saying that women don't know what they're doing. it's plain punitive because the north carolina law said if the woman says i don't want to see this and i don't want to hear this, she turns away, she covers her ears, the doctor is supposed to keep on yapping at her and yapping at her, and so that shows that it's not about information. it's about some kind of punitive performance that the doctor's supposed to go there, in violation of her or his ethics as well as the issues. >> your point is well taken. it's very much like a buffer zone law but in a broader sense because similarly we would not p...