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- From: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.191239.29856@ncsu.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan23.223128.7139@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <C1Bzsq.HJJ@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1993Jan24.235912.1721@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:12:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.235912.1721@Princeton.EDU>
- niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent) writes:
- >hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) writes:
- >>gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
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- >>> According to the Washington post, Scalia stated that since the OR
- >>> people would also be blocking any men who were seeking abortions, the
- >>> attacks were not aimed at women.
-
- > Not really. Close, but not quite that silly. He said that since OR
- > only is interfering with "women who want abortions" rather than "all women,"
- > the KKK law does not apply. He says the former group does not
- > constitute a protected class under the law.
-
- The Court rejected both arguments -- that the protesters had discriminated
- against "women in general" and "women who sought abortions". Scalia
- said that at the bare minimum, the protesters would have had to focus
- upon women "by reason of their sex" in order for the Klan act to apply.
- He said that the protesters' purpose was "physical intervention"
- between "abortionists and innocent victims", and their purpose was
- not "directed specifically at women as a class".
-
-
- >David M. Nieporent
-
-
- ---
- Doug Holtsinger
- 'finger dsh@odin.ece.ncsu.edu' for documentation which shows that
- Roe v. Wade is unrestricted abortion-on-demand throughout pregnancy.
-