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...Muppet Show, wiggled her nose shrugged her shoulders to the beat and laughed like an absolute goofball. In a more somber moment, DiFrance introduced a new song about clinic violence that addressed the recent bombing of a Birmingham women's clinic and the murder of an abortion doctor, Barnett Slepian, in DiFranco's hometown of Buffalo, New York. The audience was silent as DiFranco described in emotional terms the wounds of a nurse whose legs were shattered by the explosion of nails and screws. She fumbled for words to describe receiving a letter from Slepian's niece after her last...
...Muppet Show, wiggled her nose shrugged her shoulders to the beat and laughed like an absolute goofball. In a more somber moment, DiFranco introduced a new song about clinic violence that addressed the recent bombing of a Birmingham women's clinic and the murder of an abortion doctor, Barnett Slepian, in DiFranco's hometown of Buffalo, New York. The audience was silent as DiFranco described in emotional terms the wounds of a nurse whose legs were shattered by the explosion of nails and screws. She fumbled for words to describe receiving a letter from Slepian's niece after her last...
...years ago today, Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida, was murdered by one of numerous anti-abortion extremists. Doctors go to work wearing bullet-proof vests to work in clinics which are bombed, blockaded and invaded. The violence against doctors extends beyond the workplace. Dr. Barnett Slepian was murdered in his home, the victim of a sniper. The families of these doctors live in fear, afraid of being attacked in their own homes. The attacks have increased over time-seven murders of abortion providers have all happened in the last six years...
...regulate. As a medium for hate speech, the Net may be even more dangerous than print because it can put far-flung movement members in instantaneous contact. "The [Nuremberg] website takes it to even a higher level," says Planned Parenthood president Gloria Feldt. When Buffalo, N.Y., abortion doctor Barnett Slepian was killed last fall, she says, "his picture was crossed out within 15 minutes." But in the end, the Portland case used a single standard for its Internet defendants and those who threatened doctors with low-tech, Old West-style WANTED posters. If threats are specific and imminent, the jury...
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...