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                    Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Ê
                            The Washington Post

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                  January 08, 1999, Friday, Final Edition

SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A06

LENGTH: 241 words

HEADLINE: Antiabortion Web Site Sued

DATELINE: PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 7

BODY:

Abortion doctors listed as "baby butchers" on a Web site that reads like a
wanted poster live in constant fear for their lives, attorneys said today in
a case accusing the site of being an invitation to murder.

"The defendants want to stop the doctors by any means -- dead in their
tracks," said Maria Vullo, who represents doctors listed on the site called
"The Nuremberg Files."

The site lists the names of hundreds of doctors who perform abortions, their
addresses, license numbers and names of their children. Those killed are
crossed off. Those wounded are shaded in gray.

But lawyers for the defendants maintained the site stops short of making
outright threats and is a form of political protest protected by the
Constitution.

"This is a case about the threat to kill or injure, which is simply not
there," said attorney Chris Ferrara. "Opinions? Yes, sometimes harsh. But no
violence."

Plaintiffs, including Planned Parenthood and a women's health center, claim
the site violates a law against inciting violence against abortion doctors
and their patients.

The site drew attention in October, when the name of Barnett Slepian was
crossed off the list shortly after he was killed at his suburban Buffalo
home by a sniper.

Defendants include the American Coalition of Life Advocates, an umbrella
group for several antiabortion groups nationwide, and Advocates for Life
Ministries, a radical Portland-based group.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LOAD-DATE: January 08, 1999

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