Subject: abortion (fwd)
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> >>>Subject: abortion on the Internet
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> >>> As many of you may know, on February 1, 1996, both houses of congress
> >>>passed a telecommunications bill that has made it illegal to discuss
> >>>abortion anywhere on the internet. This includes newsgroups, web
> >>>pages, ftp sites, gopher sites and e-mails of any kind. On Thursday,
> >>>February 8, President Clinton signed the bill into law. The law has gone
> >>>into effect as of midnight, February 9. This makes this e-mail illegal and
> >>>punishable by jail time or heavy fines. The federal government is
> >>>abusing its power and its citizenry in gross violation of the Constitution.
> >>>
> >>> This e-mail can be used as a form of civil disobedience. Please sign
> >>>your name on the list below, and forward it to as many people as possible.
> >>>Once again, this e-mail is illegal, and a copy of every e-mail sent
anywhere
> >>>is also sent to the FCC [???]. You can also change the signature on your
> >>>e-mail (if you use Eudora or a similar program) to have some mention of
> >>>the law and your opposition to it. Once you send this e-mail, you will
have
> >>>resisted the government's attempt to curtail your freedom of speech. If
> >>every
> >>>fifteenth person sends a copy of this e-mail to President Clinton at
> >>>president@whitehouse.gov, maybe we can get something done about this.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> __________________________________________
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> >>>I object to the U.S. government's prohibition of any discussion of
> >>>abortion on the internet.
> >>>
> >>> 1. Elizabeth Katz, student, Vassar College
> >>> 2. Julienne Silverman, Vassar College
> >>> 3. Joanna Kalb, Cornell University
> >>> 4. Lucinda Schutzman, Shoreham-Wading River High School
> >>> 5. Kate Murnane, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
> >>> 6. John Evans, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
> >>> 7. Alexandra Hartman, University of Virginia
> >>> 8. Sherry Edwards, Christopher Newport University
> >>> 9. Moin Hussaini, Johns Hopkins University
> >>> 10. Thomas Jones, Johns Hopkins University
> >>> 11. Steven Donnally, Johns Hopkins University
> >>> 12. Susanna Henighan, Oberlin College
> >>> 13. Rachel Henighan, Swarthmore College
> >>> 14. Katie Klingensmith, Swarthmore College
> >>> 15. Chris Flood, Swarthmore College
> >>> 16. Toki Rehder, Swarthmore College
> >>> 17. Halsey Varady, Yale University
> >>> 18. Peter Foonster Morris, Yale University
> >>> 19. Stephanie Morris, Brown University
> >>> 20. Lev Osherovich, University of California, Berkeley
> >>> 21. Owen Vajk, Reed College
> >>> 22. Fiona Vajk, University of Colorado, Boulder
> >>> 23. Peter Bloser, Harvard University
> >>> 24. Elana Messer, Harvard University
> >>> 25. Atissa Banuazizi, Harvard University
> >>> 26. Sima Kazemzadeh, University of California, Santa Cruz
> >>> 27. Rezsin Jaulus, University of California, Santa Cruz
> >>> 28. Kate Hausbeck, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
> >>> 29. Barb Brents, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
> >> 30. Teri Shumate, U.S. citizen abroad.
> >> 31. William G. Roy, University of California, Los Angeles
> >> 32. Katherine Beckett, University of Michigan
> >> 33. Mizue Aizeki, Los Angeles
> >> 34. Julie Monroe, Los Angeles
> >> 35. Courtney Alexander, Las Vegas
> >> 36. Masha Albrecht, Seattle
> >> 37. Ned Reifenstein, Seattle
> >> 38. Nancy Fishman, Yale Law School, New Haven
> > 39. Susan Mayer, Northwestern University
> 40. Shadd Maruna, Northwestern University
> 41. Michelle VanNatta, Northwestern University
42. Algernon Austin, Chicago, IL
43. Roberta Gold, New York, NY
44. Ben Weiss, New York, NY
45. Kaveh Kamooneh, Columbia University
46. Linda Chen, Columbia University
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> >>>FREE SPEECH IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
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