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Web site targets clinics; women seeking abortions
By Corey Hunt
For the Mesa Legend
A giant-size photo of an aborted fetus lies lightly under a shady tree,
just feet away from an entrance to a Planned Parenthood center.
The personal lives of many women are merely one click away from any stranger's
access on the internet.
Planned Parenthood is a nationwide program that promotes safe sex, different
ways to prevent pregnancy and aftercare is just one of the victims of
a website designed to expose abortion.
Women, who enter Planned Parenthood or other similar establishments involved
in performing abortions or other services, are having their pictures posted
on the internet in more than 27 states.
Unfortunately many of these women who are visiting these centers are there
for preventative measures and other health issues not related to abortion.
Abortioncams.com, a website owned and operated by an abortion activist
Neal Horsley, displays a gallery of pictures of aborted fetuses, the clinics
location, the front doors of these facilities, and the women and men entering.
The website is broken down by states, postings of current events that
pertain to the "fight against abortion," and includes a place
to make donations.
Donations are currently needed due to Neal Horsely. Terminated from his
job as a programmer, Horsely has no other outlets for supporting his family.
However, he does receive donations generated from abortioncams.com and
other websites, which he is the webmaster of.
Planned Parenthood has responded diligently with tactics to conceal the
women's faces, using giant umbrellas, huge curtains, and escorts all in
an attempt to hide these people from the cameras lenses.
"It may not be illegal but that doesn't mean it's not wrong. There
is no excuse to terrorize these women," stated Joseph Feldman, the
program manager of Counseling and Surgical Services for Planned Parenthood
of Northern and Central Arizona.
The website is currently attempting to be placed on cable access channels
across the nation.
With the help of many followers to this movement Neal Horsely is hoping
that cable will spread the word farther and faster to our ever-growing
population.
The program would be run by the Christian Gallery News Service and will
be in monthly installments with volunteers in local vicinities helping
to make this successful.
An attorney who represents public access cable programmers and two other
professors, agreed that Horsley's site and making it into a prospective
TV show would be considered protected speech.
Professor Jack Balkin of Yale Law School, who teaches torts and First
Amendment laws, said, "I don't think there's an invasion-of-privacy.
If (the patients are) out in the open, walking around, (activists) can
take a picture."
Pictures on this site show women walking around or even driving close
to the center not entering the Planned Parenthood.
A link through the site to The Nuremburg Files, leads the internet surfer
through a list of doctors who perform abortions including their business
and home addresses, phone numbers, and in some cases pictures of the doctors.
Once a doctor is wounded, attacked or killed they are entered onto another
list showing their name and what the event entailed.
"It's their technique," said Gloria Feldt, National President
of Planned Parenthood. "Their goal is to win by intimidation."
A brother site, SpiritFX.com, hosted by Erick, who withholds his last
name, displays a "Wall of Shame." The site currently runs pictures
of women entering Planned Parenthood in his home town, Knoxville, Tennessee,
accompanied with captions attempting to explain women's thoughts and other
bits of information.
"This tactic of photographing baby killers and posting their pictures
on the Internet is proving to be the most effective tool that we have
ever used," said Erick on his on line journal.
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