Imagine some activist publicly advocating violence against abortion providers. It would be a dangerous abuse of free speech.

To take this hypothetical one step further, imagine a mainstream newspaper helping promote the message by publishing a letter from the activist. The letter might say:

“If the abortion industry puts abortion clinics in our neighborhoods, threatening children’s lives, then don’t we have a moral responsibility to blow up abortion clinics and eliminate abortion and abortion workers?”

The answer, of course, is a resounding “no.” Americans have no right to resolve domestic disputes with bombs. Public outrage would rightly ensue if the letter were published. In the United States, only a marginal set of barbarians promotes violence as a means of resolving policy matters.

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