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Abortion: Abortion is the medical or surgical intervention to terminate a pregnancy, usually for personal, health or social reasons.
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Jonathan Zittrain on Abortion - Dictionary of Arguments

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Abortion/Zittrain: The Christian Gallery News Service was started by antiabortion activist Neal Horsley in the mid 1990s. Part of its activities included the Nuremberg Files Web site, where the public was solicited for as much information as possible about the identities, lives, and families of physicians who performed abortions, as well as about clinic owners and workers. (1) When a provider was killed, a line would be drawn through his or her name. (The site was rarely updated with new information, and it became entangled in a larger lawsuit lodged under the U.S. Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. (2) The site remains accessible.) An associated venture solicits the public to take pictures of women arriving at clinics, including the cars in which they arrive (and corresponding license plates), and posts the pictures in order to deter people from nearing clinics. (3)

1. The Nuremberg Files, http://www.christiangallery.com/atrocity/ (last visited June 1, 2007).
2. See Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette Inc. v. Am. Coal. of Life Activists, 422 F.3d 949 (9th Cir. 2005).
3. Abortion Cams: Shame Deters Abortion, http://www.abortioncams.com/ (last visited June 1, 2007). The Web site is premised on the belief that showing the images of clinic patients will either shame or scare women away from having an abortion. See How to Deter Abortion, http://www.abortioncams.com/deter.htm (last visited June 1, 2007) (“Would a preacher want to be photographed going into a whore house, would a Priest want to be photographed going into a sex chat room with grade school kids? Neither would a mother want to be photographed going in to kill her baby”).


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Jonathan Zittrain
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It New Haven 2009


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