Jessica Valenti recently posted in her column about how the released videos on Planned Parenthood has caused successive attacks to many abortive clinics in different places in the United States.
The columnist cited that the said videos were purposely edited to be misleading and fuel the aggressive impulse of the anti-Planned Parenthood movement. The videos were said to have posed a "very real threat of violence" that a judge has issued a temporary restraining order and is deciding whether the videos were illegally obtained so that it could be blocked permanently.
Threats against many healthcare providers and their facilities have increased ever since the spread of the said videos by extremists who were against abortion and family planning in general.
There were already four arson cases against women's clinics. In a different setting, three people died and nine were left wounded in the shooting in an abortion clinic in Colorado Springs last November and the suspect allegedly felt no remorse as he confessed in court saying, "I'm guilty" and "I'm a warrior for the babies."
While Valenti explicitly showed her distaste concerning the terroristic attacks against Planned Parenthood, a different news website suggests that the reporter in talk implies that the people who released the videos should be jailed just as how the protesters and critics of The Draft were imprisoned during the World War I.
The website criticized Valenti's presentation of events and said that she is misquoting Oliver Wendell Holmes dropping a rhetorical aside in the case of Schenck versus the United States. They commented that Valenti spoke approvingly of the original ruling because she thinks that it justifies censoring speech which she doesn't like.
They also suggested that Valenti either doesn't understand the legal issues or is lying about them asserting, "the National Abortion Federation learned from the mistakes of Stem Express and explicitly couched their lawsuit and injunction request against the defendants in terms of breach of confidentiality agreements and fraud, not wrongful content."
According to the report, Valenti's call for censorship is not restricted to the Planned Parenthood videos alone but that she is clearly trying to gather attention to censor political speech whether or not it is intended or is likely to cause threats of violence.
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