Salman Rushdie, Booker Prize winner, has spoken about the importance of free speech following the terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo. Salman Rushdie defends free speech and doing so, he joins thousands of people all over the world who have been showing support for the French nation and the caricaturists at Charlie Hebdo. Rushdie himself is no stranger to controversy. His 1988 book The Satanic … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Strikes Down Massachusetts Abortion Clinic Speech Buffer Zone
The Supreme Court reached a seminal decision for the life v. choice debate on Thursday, when it annulled a Massachusetts law against speech around abortion facilities. According to the law in question, speech was prohibited within a ‘buffer zone’ around such clinics, stretching out for 35 feet from the clinics’ doors. The buffer zones would extend into public areas, such as sidewalks and streets. … [Read more...]
