Legal Opinion
Operation Rescue National v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 6, 1998No. 97-2290PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.
On November 15,1993 Senator Edward M. Kennedy, in Boston, following a campaign fund-raising luncheon, addressed a group of reporters in connection with a bill protecting access to clinics serving women’s health, including abortions. The bill, of which he was the prime sponsor, was to be debated in the Senate the following day. In the course of his remarks, in answer to a question regarding this legislation, the Senator stated that organizations like Operation Rescue National (“Operation Rescue”) had a “national policy [of] firebombing and even murder.”…
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