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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 01:40 PM
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Jilted ex-boyfriend puts up abortion billboard
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/jilted-ex-boyfriend-puts-abortion-billboard-194142831.html

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man's decision to lash out with a billboard ad saying his ex-girlfriend had an abortion against his wishes has touched off a legal debate over free speech and privacy rights.

The sign on Alamogordo's main thoroughfare shows 35-year-old Greg Fultz holding the outline of an infant. The text reads, "This Would Have Been A Picture Of My 2-Month Old Baby If The Mother Had Decided To Not KILL Our Child!"

Fultz's ex-girlfriend has taken him to court for harassment and violation of privacy. A domestic court official has recommended the billboard be removed.

But Fultz's attorney argues the order violates his client's free speech rights.
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Demobrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 01:43 PM
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1. The man has every legal right to do what he did.
However he has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that the woman was smart to abort and even smarter to dump him. Now when and if she does choose to reproduce she will hopefully choose a better father for her children than this immature, spiteful loser.
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Saokymo Donating Member (194 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 01:45 PM
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3. The woman says that she had a miscarriage, not an abortion
... which makes the billboard all the more disgusting. Either way, she'll be a hell of a lot better off without this creep in her life.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 01:45 PM
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4. Does he?
I say harassment.
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abelenkpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 01:45 PM
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2. That is really disturbing and wrong. nt
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 02:21 PM
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16. I agree but it may also be legally permissable
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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 01:48 PM
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5. Sorry, this is when his free speech rights
Are clearly harassment and an invasion of privacy....and yeah, he is a spiteful loser, but that doesn't give him the right to make someone else's life a living hell, even after she told him to take a hike.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 01:53 PM
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6. I would guess he has much more serious mental health issues
given the level of spitefulness this belies. If she is filing for harassment too, there must be something more involved going on with him.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 01:54 PM
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7. Yes, he undoubtedly has a mental health issue.
Namely, being an extreme misogynist anti-choicer. That fucks up your mind good.
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 02:03 PM
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11. i think this is more of a control thing. she is a possession and how dare his possession
dare think she is going to leave him.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 02:09 PM
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12. That's what misogyny actually is.
"They're not people, they're property. If they try to assert themselves as people, they're in fact stealing themselves from me, the b****es!"
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 01:57 PM
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8. I saw on a thread yesterday - he has several tweets w/threat to kill/mutilate her
Very violent imagery - speaks openly of hate, rage, desire to kill and dismember her, shoot her with a shotgun, etc.
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 01:58 PM
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9. In doing this, he has made a public announcement to all future girlfriends:
"I'm going ejaculate inside you without wearing a condom, and if you get pregnant you better NOT have an abortion, because I'm against abortion ..got it?"

Got that, ladies?

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LastLiberal in PalmSprings Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 02:00 PM
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10. And if she'd had the child he'd have been the first to fight against
being held financially responsible for the child's medical bills, college, etc. Betcha there's no mention of his willingness to take on those obligations.

Billboards cost money. Follow the money and you'll find some "right to life" group playing one of their shitty games.

Remember, "Love the fetus, hate the child."
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mwrguy Donating Member (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 02:09 PM
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13. HIPAA violation?
He could get jail time for that.

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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 02:19 PM
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15. Probably not
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 02:25 PM
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17. HIPPA applies to practitioners/staff and people who hold your medical records only.
HIPPA doesn't apply to asshole ex-boyfriends. She's already filed an order of protection against him though, so that's a start.

I hope she sues the greasy little bastard till his DOG owes her money.

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DeadEyeDyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:49 PM
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30. If I warn others that my ex-girlfriend has a flaming case of hepes
as long as it is true, I am quite sure she can not do anything
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 02:19 PM
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14. Similar to a LBN thread yesterday
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 02:48 PM
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19. LOL!
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 04:01 PM
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22. So? Different forum. Right-wing idiocy should be exposed.
Don't you agree?
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:38 PM
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23. Indeed I do, and I think that those who missed it should see that disussion as well
Edited on Tue Jun-07-11 10:38 PM by ProgressiveProfessor
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 02:38 PM
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18. No picture, name or identifying info of the GF except himself. I don't like it, but its not illegal.


IMO.
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Demobrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 03:45 PM
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20. It actually says more about him than it does about her.
Who on earth could blame her for dumping the kind of person who would do that?
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:40 PM
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26. Most definitely.

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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:39 PM
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24. It did name her. The "organization" NAMI, the woman's name is Nami. n/t
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:42 PM
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27. I'm not sure that's enough to say he identified that specific person, but thank you for pointing ...
...that out.

Thank you.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 04:00 PM
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21. Abortion is a medical procedure...medical records are private...
Sue this asshole.
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:40 PM
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25. He never saw her medical records.
He's not her doctor or a medical professional so she couldn't sue under HIPAA. He's admitted that he doesn't know if she miscarried or had an abortion (her friend's say she miscarried).

She should sue him for harassment.
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:42 PM
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28. How did he did not violate HIPAA?
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/privacyrule/index.html

Not saying it is anywhere near right, but it may be within the letter of the law...disgusting none the less
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-11 10:46 PM
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29. He's never seen her medical records, nor is he a medical provider or her employer.
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