Inc. v. Scheidler National Organization for Women

In National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Scheidler, pro-choice and pro-life forces fought yet another battle in a war that had been going on since the Supreme Court legalized abortion with Roe v. Wade (1973). Like its predecessor and a number of other abortion-related challenges in the Supreme Court, Scheidler was decisively in favor of the pro-choice side. But the nature of that victory-- involving as it did the reapplication of a crime statute formerly wielded against Mafia bosses and drug lords to prevent abortion protesters from blocking access to clinics--would raise some disturbing First Amendment questions.