Feminists, Racketeers, and the First Amendment

Feminists, Racketeers, and the First Amendment

First amendment freedoms are inevitably invoked by provocateurs and dissenters seeking to change or com-
plain about the status quo, so it’s not surprising that anti-abortion protesters have discovered free speech. After abortion was legalized and normalized in the early 1970s, pro-

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