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Brief abstract of the story for those that don't want to click on the link (based on scant details that I glean from this article - other articles might have more details and a picture of the billboard). An ex-boyfriend paid for billboard space which supposedly shows a picture of himself holding the outline of a baby. The caption for the billboard reads: "This Would Have Been A Picture Of My 2-Month Old Baby If The Mother Had Decided To Not KILL Our Child!"
A domestic court is trying to intervene in the process by ordering the removal of the side, but that is being challenged on free speech grounds.
** EDIT: What happened to the rest of the subject line? Silly computer deleted part of it somehow. Pesky AI computers with a mind of their own.
Brief abstract of the story for those that don't want to click on the link (based on scant details that I glean from this article - other articles might have more details and a picture of the billboard). An ex-boyfriend paid for billboard space which supposedly shows a picture of himself holding the outline of a baby. The caption for the billboard reads: "This Would Have Been A Picture Of My 2-Month Old Baby If The Mother Had Decided To Not KILL Our Child!"
A domestic court is trying to intervene in the process by ordering the removal of the side, but that is being challenged on free speech grounds.
It should be challenged on free speech grounds. Nothing horrifying or gruesome to the eye is going on in the billboard. Just stating facts.
perhaps the ex girlfriend should put up a billboard about his small manhood or third nipple. the man is obviously a jerk to put up the billboard. a woman has the right to privacy. the public also assumes facts not in evidence, how does one really know if it is true or not?
perhaps the ex girlfriend should put up a billboard about his small manhood or third nipple. the man is obviously a jerk to put up the billboard. a woman has the right to privacy. the public also assumes facts not in evidence, how does one really know if it is true or not?
Well he left her name out of it. Still private. Also it's free speech, he's allowed. If people are allowed to protest funerals then this should fly also.
Well he left her name out of it. Still private. Also it's free speech, he's allowed. If people are allowed to protest funerals then this should fly also.
Valid point. He didn't include any identifying information about the ex girlfriend. So hmmm....
The woman's friends say she had a miscarriage, not an abortion, according to a report in the Albuquerque Journal.
If the message on the billboard is correct and true, then it's protected speech (no matter how disgusting his airing this laundry via a billboard is - and I find it very disgusting). If she in fact miscarried, then I'd say she has a very good case for libel.
If the message on the billboard is correct and true, then it's protected speech (no matter how disgusting his airing this laundry via a billboard is - and I find it very disgusting). If she in fact miscarried, then I'd say she has a very good case for libel.
But he's not using her name on the sign; how could it be libel?
I agree that it is protected free speech, and I don't find it any worse (since there are no identifying details)
than the anti-God signs I see. That's free speech also, even if I don't agree with it.
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