Supreme Court rules on anti-choice “wanted” posters
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that anti-choicers who created “wanted” posters to identify doctors who perform abortions should pay $5 million in damages. It’s about time--this court battle has been a decade in the making.
The 12 activists and two anti-abortion groups were sued under a racketeering law and the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which makes it illegal to incite violence and threaten abortion doctors.
A Portland, Ore., jury had first awarded several doctors and clinics $108 million in punitive damages, but that was reduced by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Anti-choice groups appealed in an attempt to reduce the amount (over and over again).
...Maria Vullo, the lawyer for Planned Parenthood, said the Supreme Court had "finally put an end to re-litigation of these issues." She said her clients did not contest the reduction of the punitive damages to $4.73 million.
"This case has never been about the money. It's about protecting doctors' lives," she said.
Anti-choicers have always contended that there is nothing threatening about the Wanted posters. Paul DeParrie, former editor-in-chief of Life Advocate magazine and one of the posters' creators: "If you read them, there is no threat--either implicit or explicit."
Tell that to Dr. Bayard Britton, who was shot and killed (along with his bodyguard) outside a Florida clinic after his name appeared on a similar poster.
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Yea!!!! Hitting them in there wallets,
Ps the new format of the sk boards sucks. Nothing works ,hence no quotes and bolded sections of importance.
Supreme Court rules on anti-choice “wanted” posters
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