Legal Question in Constitutional Law in Iowa
protesting with obscene signs
There are people who protest with signs of dead mutalted babies, and have them plastered to there vechicle can that follow under some kind of code? If kids are not able to watch rated r movies or buy them can this person post them for these children to see?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: protesting with obscene signs
There is a difference between disturbing and obscene. Very little is considered obscene, and the photos you describe generally wouldn't even come close. Context matters, also, and images that are used in order to argue over important social and political issues are entitled to very strong protection under the First Amendment. Even without this context, though, I very much doubt any lawmakers would try to bar the use of disturbing medical images in public. I doubt even more that such a ban would survive a legal challenge in the courts.
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