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...group this site under the auspices of the Bill of Rights demeans those very rights. While we share the staff's concern for the freedom of speech, we are equally concerned about the doctors' right to life, and we urge the court to consider seriously the line between political speech, which the rest of the site is, and violating the law. Jenny E. Heller '01, Adam S. Hickey '99, Caille M. Millner '01, James Y. Stern '01, Geoffrey C. Upton...
Shortly after Dr. Barnett Slepian, an abortion doctor in Buffalo, N.Y., was killed by a sniper's bullet, his name appeared on an anti-abortion Web site called "The Nuremberg Files" with a black line through it. The Web site, whose sponsors include the American Coalition of Life Advocates, collects and displays detailed information--including photographs, home addresses, names of family members and license plate numbers--about doctors who provide abortions as their primary service. The site's list is updated with black lines for doctors who have been slain and gray lettering for those who have been wounded...
...site also encourages supporters to collect and submit further information, ostensibly to be used at some future point when abortion may be outlawed and providers will be put on trial. To abortion-rights advocates, however, the pages, with their bloody graphics and ominous content, read like a detailed hit list, designed to terrorize doctors and keep them from providing the legal service of abortion...
Planned Parenthood has filed a civil suit against those involved with "The Nuremberg Files" in Portland, Ore., alleging that the site encourages violence against abortion providers and thereby infringes upon the 1994 Federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The case is the first of its kind both because it tests the boundaries of the 1994 Act with the question of whether words on a Web site can have the same deterring factor as physically blocking clinic entrances and because it questions the First Amendment rights of the Internet, asking whether the site is a purely political vehicle...
...those of us who support a woman's right to choose as well as to the majority of those who are anti-abortion, nowhere does there seem to be the threat of imminent lawless action. Not only is the Internet inherently weak as a provocative medium, but the Web site does not explicitly call for violence against abortion doctors. Furthermore, the site can be viewed as an informational political vehicle, since it also urges voters to begin letter-writing campaigns against abortion. Much as we might prefer that the site be taken down, it would curtail the First Amendment...