again: this is stupid and will not succeed in accomplishing at all.
did the protestor have a restraining order? was it broken? then send him to fucking jail, already.
further, you charge the people spitting on the patients with assault, and, if they don't smarten up, then you send them to jail, too.
you don't defeat self-righteousness with prohibition. you have to at least try to educate the stupid out of them, but if it doesn't work then you need to remove them from society, altogether.
that doesn't protect the victims, here, though. how do you do that? and, what is the ideal in a free society?
in a free society, the ideal is to create vigilante groups of counter-protestors that can be deployed quickly via social media. i'd put a call out to the community for this. the counter-protesters would show up and chase the protesters off.
this is preferable because it defeats speech with more speech, rather than with state violence.
https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/a3j8nk/no-protest-zone-outside-abortion-clinics-gaining-momentum-in-canada
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.