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1 Is that not what is going on, is there any other <br />2 reason why you have to picket his house? <br />MR. MCDOWELL: We do not claim a right to harass. <br />4 And in this case, that is not what was involved. Because <br />public issue picketing is in many ways quite similar to <br />leafleting. Because what is involved is the transmission of a <br />7 message, in this case a message of opposition to abortion. <br />Picketing was a means utilized. <br />However, what was involved here was not the type of <br />10 perhaps signal that one might have in a labor picketing <br />11 instance, but instead merely a use of the signs and the <br />12 picketing to indicate disapproval. <br />13 QUESTION: When you picket a store, that is a logical <br />14 place to do that, because you are sending your message to the <br />15 customers of that store or a business. Or you are picketing a <br />1 plant that is on strike. You are sending the message to the <br />17 other workers who might want to come in. <br />18 To whom are you sending the message here, that they <br />19 could not get it anywhere else, why is this a logical place to <br />20 get this message across to anyone except the doctor whose <br />21 privacy you are invading? <br />22 MR. MCDOWELL: Well, it is a legitimate place, as the <br />23 picketers noted in their affidavits, to transmit their message <br />24 both to the doctor and also to his neighbors. <br />25 QUESTION: You can get it to his neighbors very <br />32 <br />Heritage Reporting Corporation <br />(202) 628-4888 <br />