Pittsburgh, quo vadis?

Even as it recovers from the nightmare hangover of a thunderous trouncing by the Indianapolis Colts yesterday evening, the city at the confluence of the Monongahela, Ohio and Allegheny Rivers continues into its ever-so-more liberal, anti-life downspiral.

Long entrenched and run by left wing Democrat regimes, this beautiful city in Western Pennsylvania is moving to further restrict free speech in an assinine new proposal from the Pittsburgh City Council.

Like a bull rush from Dwight Freeney and Corey Simon, the masonically-centered rulers on the Mon will find this anti-First Amendment proposal shot down at the slightest of judicial reviews. Of course, Planned Barrenhood has sprinkled their twisted support of this restriction of freedom of speech against baby killing.

Mind you, the leftist leaders of the 'Burgh got away for many years with the "nightmare in Pittsburgh" when modest pro-life women were assaulted, beaten, fondled and heaped on with the what seemed like the devil's own vituperation. They will find this time it will not go so well as beating up defenseless passive women. This time those whose freedom of speech to witness and defend the most defenseless of our brothers and sisters will not go so quietly into that night or for years of beaureaucratic red-tape judicial proceedings.

This proposal deserves only one fate: A requiem mass without any of the pomp or circumstance.

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Proposal would ban protests near abortion clinic doors
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Two Pittsburgh City Council members introduced legislation today that would govern protests near clinics, hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

The legislation, sponsored by Councilmen Doug Shields and William Peduto, would create a 100-foot zone around entrances to healthcare facilities. People could protest within that zone but could not go within 8 feet of a person seeking to use the facility without that person's consent.

It would bar any protests within 15 feet of the entrance to a healthcare facility.
The legislation is meant to give police a means of preventing violent confrontations in front of healthcare facilities, said Kim Evert, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania, which supports the proposed ordinance.

She said protestors frequently target clinics that provide abortion services, like Allegheny Reproductive Health Center in East Liberty. "There needs to be an ability to separate people in these very intense emotional situations," she said.

She noted that issues like stem cell research and genetic engineering could inspire protests near hospitals and research facilities. Council could vote tentatively on the legislation Dec. 7 but may opt to schedule a public hearing instead.

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from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, http://www.post-gazette.com/.