- Abortioncams.com Works! June 19, 2003 - Neal Horsley showcases new proof that "the Lord Jesus Christ wants every move at every abortion butchertorium in the nation to be recorded on still and video cameras, and made available for publication."
- Anti-Abortion Cams February 28, 2003 - Transcript of an NPR program with interviews with Ken and Jo Scott, who take pictures of women entering Planned Parenthood. Interviews as well with clinic personne and with Neal Horsley, who publishes the pictures on the web.
- AbortionCams.com variously called "Baby Butcher Cams" or "Cameras focused on Abortion Clinics in USA."
In An Abortion Deterrant, a subpage of the abortioncams website, Neal Horsley explains: The pro-life movement has sown confusion in this nation by treating mothers who kill their children as victims who needed to be ministered to rather than infanticides who must be punished."
"And those homicidal mothers must be held up for the world to see."
- Abortion WebCam August 22, 2002 - Transcript of a CBS Evening News piece on Ken and Jo Scott shouting at patients in Denver and taking their photographs for posting to the internet by Neal Horsley.
- Cable company says TV show can't air footage of women entering abortion clinics August 23, 2002 - The footage was to be run on the cable-access "Uncle Ed. Show" in Des Moines IA. The cable company considers it would be a violation of the women's privacy. Click to find out more about Uncle Ed.
- Antiabortion Ambush The March 2002 issue of Mother Jones Magazine tells how antis are taking pictures of patients and publishing medical records on the net.
- Taking AbortionCams.Com To Television Horsley's supporters are to approach their local cable access authorities about running the video and still images made outside abortion clinics.
- Anti-abortionists try new weapon: Pro-life protestors use cameras, raise legal issues, lawsuits May 28, 2002 - A Wall Street Journal/MSNBC collaboration about the AbortionCams project.
- Unsuspecting women at clinics star in ugly reality game May 30, 2002 - The antiabortion protesters have "latched onto the concept of reality TV, only with video cams and a Web site."
- Abortion Patients' Pictures Posted Online: Photographs Taken Outside Clinics In Cincinnati, Ohio "demonstrators at abortion clinics are now taking pictures of the women who go inside, and posting them on the Internet."
- A legal sort of harassment May 31, 2002 - An opinion piece considers protesters tactics to be "cruel and counterproductive" but probably legal.
- Critics Say 'Abortioncams' Invade Privacy August 15, 2001 - But legal experts feel the activity may be constitutionally protected.
- Abortioncam is disheartening, but it is legally sound September 9, 2001 - Prochoice columnist Robyn Blumner says "Rather than boxing shadows and the Constitution, abortion advocates should leave Horsley's Web and cable productions alone. Instead, those energies should be directed toward making abortion more broadly available."
- Abortion foes use new tactics May 28, 2002 - From the website of KING-TV, Seattle, WA. "They're taking pictures of Washington women while entering abortion clinics or family planning facilities and then posting them on the Internet."
- Abortion Protestors Wielding a New Weapon: A Camera aired May 29, 2002. Transcript of a segment of the Paula Zahn progrm "American Morning."
- Audio clip of an NPR All Things Considered program segment on taking pictures of women going for abortions June 6, 2002 - Run time four minutes 35 seconds.
- Anti-abortion extremists use free speech as a cover June 2, 2002 - "Assigning threats of violence to a face, name and address is not what the Constitution regards as free speech."
- Despicable tactics June 6, 2002 - "A stranger standing on the sidewalk with a camera can't know what goes on between a woman and a health care provider, can't know what's in a woman's heart, mind or conscience."
- Are "Abortion Cam" websites, which post photos of women entering abortion clinics, privacy-violating or First Amednment-protected? June 6, 2002 - Attorney Laura Hodes believes women may find legal relief based on several principles. As to the a supposed First Amendment right to publish names and photographs, "The Women Are Not 'Fair Game,' and Their Abortions Are Not 'Newsworthy'."
- Abortion Clinic Pictures Posted on Web July 10, 2002 - "Ultimate Invasion of Privacy Could Be Perfectly Legal." ABC TV had a short piece on the evening news. This is the web version of that piece.
- Freedom to Shame July 24, 2002 - The abortion.cam picture takers are within their rights. Clinic escorts use another aspect of the First Amendment: they shield patients from the cameras with newspapers.
The suit against the American Coalition of Life Activists
- US Supreme Court Decision on VIRGINIA v. BLACK et al. This is the Supreme Court's recent decision on the legality of cross burning.
- Cross Burning Decision Could "Doom" Anti-Abortion Extremists' Case April 8, 2003 - "The majority opinion declared in Virginia v. Black that the First Amendment does not guarantee freedom of speech if terror or intimidation is the intent."
- Dead Abortionists in Hell Fire A page on the Army of God website, arguing that the Nuremberg Files website hasn't caused anybody to be killed.
- Excerpts from jury instructions From instructions to the jury in the suit brought by Planned Parenthood against the American Coalition of Life Activists. How to decide whether the contents of the Nuremberg Files fall entirely within the realm of free speech, or whether they reach into the area of inciting to violence.
- A Threat by any other Name: Do The Nuremberg Files Cross The First Amendment Line? December 19, 2001 - Writing about Planned Parenthood v. ACLA, legal commentator Sherry Colb maintains "it is indeed formalism to fail or refuse to recognize a threat for what it is, though it has been camouflaged with a wink and a nod."
- Ruling Curbs Abortion Foes' Tactics May 16, 2002 - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upholds the 1999 ruling of a Federal District Court. The menacing "Wanted" posters and the hitlist website of The Nuremberg Files are to be taken as threats of violence.
- No legal standing for abortion foes' Web site threats: Court rules violent intentions are not protected free speech May 17, 2002 - Wanted posters and "and some of the contents of the so-called Nuremberg Files Web site were threats intended to intimidate doctors and medical clinics, rather than constitutionally protected political speech."
- Poster Children: After 9/11, what can abortion protesters get away with? May 22, 2002 - "Before Sept. 11, a decision treating ambiguous threats as unprotected speech might have been troubling. But after Sept. 11, this result may well have been inevitable."
- Anti-abortion Web site: Creative intimidation, not free expression July 1, 2002 - an amednews.com editorial applauds the Circuit Court ruling in the American Coalition of Life Activists case. "In this ruling, the court has wisely recognized an instance when speech went too far."
The Clayton Waagner Suite
The stories below from Neal Horsley are all linked from the opening page of The Christian Gallery. An odd theme: Horsley claims Waagner "forced" him to publish these details. Given his long history of praise for Waagner and similar types, Horsley may not have required a gret deal of force.
- Clayton Waagner Visited Me Today November 23, 2001 - Escaped bank robber and aspiring antiabortion hit man Waagner came knocking at Neal Horsley's back door. Horsley appeals to readers to help him retrieve a tape of instructions Waagner left him -- else some unfortunate clinic employees may die! The biggest news since The Ghost of Christmas Past appeared to Ebenezer Scrooge.
- CLAYTON LEE WAAGNER'S ESCAPE CLAUSE: How Abortion Employees Can Escape Death This elaborates on the link directly above, Waagner's supposed visit to Neal Horsley. In this piece, Waagner tells abortion clinic workers how they can escape his sentence of death.
- Abortion Industry Leaders Uses Support Personnel As Bait To Capture Waagner Horsley reasons that clinic workers are being kept in the dark about Waagner's threats to kill 42 of them.
- Abortion terrorism intrigue November 28, 2001 - Frederick Clarkson, writing in Salon Magazine, gives comments and background on Clayton Waagner and his supposed meeting with Neal Horsley.
- The abortion worker hit list November 28, 2001 - Recounts the Horsley/Waagner adventure, citing various sources and commentaries.
For more about
Clayton Waagner . . .
- A Hot Time in South Florida: Signs of Revival May 31, 2003 - Mike Bray of the Army of God celebrates the first abortion clinic firebombing of 2003, "providing long awaited relief to all Americans who have been mourning the lack of spiritual life in their countrymen."
- Biblical justice for baby-murderers "The Bible says that the killing of the innocent brings a curse upon the land and its people. It also says that the curse can only be lifted by executing the shedder of innocent blood." Patrick Johnston, the author of the piece argues that any righteous citizen can carry out this sentence of death. "Abortionists should be killed, so that the innocent may be defended and the curse of innocent blood be lifted off our land."
- US anti-abortion militants name Britons on Web July 20, 2001 - "A militant American anti-abortion group whose website brands abortionists as 'baby butchers' and threatens punishment has stepped up its campaign against three British family planning experts."
- Journalists or terrorists? May 31, 2001 - Frederick Clarkson, writing in Salon.com questions Neal Horsley's journalistic credentials.
- Neal Horsley takes on Planned Parenthood and Geraldo Rivera Bro. Neal treats the faithful to a detailed account of his court maneuvers. The nerve of those proaborts, suggesting that Neal was posting a hit list!
- Geraldo Rivera Bests Anti-Abortion Webmaster In Libel Spat May 29, 2002 - An appeals court rules that news personality Rivera did not libel antiabortion crusader Horsley.
Horsley wannabes
- Planned Parenthood’s Prayer and Write-In Campaign October 14, 2002 - Missionaries to the Unborn compile a list of Planned Parenthood staff in Central Texas. Believers should shower the people on the list with "godly materials that reveal God’s love, salvation, forgiveness, deliverance, and yes, warning found in the Scriptures."
- In a Perfect World . . . Horsley disciple B. Lokey writes passionately on scriptural prohibition of abortion, the conscious suffering of the fetus, the blood guilt of the politicians and the justices of the Supreme Court. He gives specific advice on how to make a pipe bomb, slyly couching his instructions in the subjunctive: "Even homemade weaponry would come into play . . .", "The inside of the pipe would be lined with . . .", "It would be lit, and thrown into an abortion factory. "
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Jay's Killer Website Another Horsley imitator, Jay Rogers. The centerpiece of this site: a database including photographs of abortion doctors. They publish all the data they can get, like home address, phone number, Social Security Number, Medical License Number . . . This centers on abortion clinics and doctors in the South. Jay has made web pages with photos and rambling descriptions of nine Florida abortion providers.
- Abortion Wars: An open letter to the pro-life community Jay Rogers puts false modesty aside and treats his admirers to a lengthy recitation of all his wonderful accomplishments of the last decade and a half.
- We have identified a killer of preborn children January 7, 2002 - They urge readers to write the abortionist, urging him to repent. They provide a sample letter as a guide.
Trying to Incite Religious Insurrection
- You are Invited to a Murder Neal Horsley plays up assassin Paul Hill as a hero. "Paul Jennings Hill To be murdered by the State of Florida with the approval of
The United States government Heart Began to Beat at Three Weeks Murder by Lethal Injection execution set for
September 3, 2003 at Florida State Prison"
- Defensive Action Statement from the website of the Army of God. "We assert that if Michael Griffin did in fact kill David Gunn, his use of lethal force was justifiable provided it was carried out for the purpose of defending the lives of unborn children."
- Paul Hill & Defensive Action Two statements by the assassin Paul Hill, showcased on the website of Drew Heiss, Missionary to the Preborn.
- A Declaration of Support for the Defenders of Unborn Children "We will not turn away and cower . . . ." "We will stand with our brother James Kopp." The decree expands and updates the earlier Defensive Action Statement, that was drawn up in support of Michael Griffin for murdering Dr. David Gunn. Some signers of that original document are not present on the new "Declaration of Support." Furthermore, there are signers to the new statement who have not signed such statements before. More information on the signers of this declaration.
- Speeches, letters, quotations from convicted assassins and arsonists A self-praise festival featuring Paul Hill, Shelley Shannon and lesser luminaries.
- Missionaries' Leader Calls for Armed Militias Matthew Trewhella, co-founder of Missionaries to the Preborn, called for churches to form armed militias at the Wisconsin convention of the US Taxpayers Party in 1994.
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Operation Rescue Founder Predicts Armed Conflict "Our enemies would throw the tough cases up in our face and say, 'Do you actually mean you would support the stoning of a rebellious teenager?' I fear God and I think that we would have a heck of a lot fewer rebellious teenagers if a law like that existed in America today." -- Randall Terry
- Abortion Culture Cal Thomas argues that reproductive rights cause violence.
- Linda Thompson's call to invade Washington D.C. In her capacity as Acting Adjutant General of the Unorganized Militia of United States, Thompson ordered that on September 19, 1994 the militia should "arrest Congressmen who have failed to uphold their oaths of office, who then will be tried for Treason by Citizens' Courts."
- Operation Rescue seeks solution to floating abortion clinic July 2, 2002 - Outraged that the Dutch abortion clinic ship, the Aurora, is back on the seas, Operation Rescue talks about buying a submarine.
The Murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian
Protesters outside the Buffalo, NY
clinic of Dr. Slepian in 1992
- Abortionist Murdered by Spirit of Murder Savaging Our Nation October 30, 1998 - How Operation Rescue National announced Dr. Slepian's assassination.
- Ode to Slepian A prose-poem recreation of the assassination of Dr. Slepian, illustrated with a picture of his tombstone.
- The Mockery of Mourning In this article Barry Kilbane, who also styles himself "Josiah," maintains that Matthew Shepard and Dr. Barnett Slepian were "victims precisely
because of who and what they were. These were not hapless souls who
wandered into the path of a rampaging sociopath. They were singled out
because they represent an abomination in the sight of God." Having pandered to reactionary bloodlust with this statement, the author avers: "This is not meant to
conclude that this is what their murderers had in mind as they were killing
them. Godly men do not act outside of the parameters that God has
established."
- When Pro-Life Becomes Pro-Terrorism: Death in the Name of Life October 31, 1998 - ABCNews.com writes about the murder of Dr. Slepian.
- James Kopp, Man of Peace November, 2002 - The Reverend Mike Bray of the Army of God declares Dr. Slepian's assassination no crime. "Yes, of course Atomic Dog shot Abortionist Barnett Slepian. The termination of the murderer was a deed quite consistent with Mr. Kopp’s life of service for the innocent, brutalized womb children of America. It was a good deed that brought peace for many innocents through the death of a wicked serial killer."
An urban legend in the making
In 1999 antiabortion extremists circulated speculation that Dr. Barnett Slepian died while on the verge of "conversion." Three years later, extremists dress up the story further as the accused murderer James Kopp faces trial.
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| Protesters outside the Buffalo, NY clinic of Dr. Slepian in 1992 |
