[gridlock]

I don’t mean to sound harsh, but why shouldn’t these women be content to face the punishment meted out by the state? By doing so, they can demonstrate the injustice of the law that will throw somebody in jail for nothing more than speaking. If their sentences are commuted, they will not have an opportunity to make this point.

History is filled with examples of activists who have inspired the masses by being subjected to unjust inprisonment, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to name only a few.

[topher]

No. That is a good point. There is the example of Dr. Paul Schenck, who won a SCOTUS decision. He was charged with blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic because he offered a woman a Bible.

However, there was one SCOTUS Justice that did not agree with the majority...

Here is a PDF about Paul Schenck:

http://www.acljlife.org/ussc/Transcripts/Schenck%20Transcript.pdf

To me, that occasion was about Freedom of Speech, and not blocking the entrance of an abortion clinic, but it had to go to the US Supreme Court to get thrown out...

[victim soul]

MMMM .. your theory might be correct but these women have been jailed since December and have you read/seen/heard anything about them except here?