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6 Yale J.L. & Feminism 155 (1994)
Beyond Bray: Obtaining Federal Jurisdiction to Stop Anti-Abortion Violence

handle is hein.journals/yjfem6 and id is 161 raw text is: Beyond Bray:
Obtaining         era  Jurisdiction
To Stop Anti-Abortion Violence
Rebecca Eisenbergt
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE: THE MURDER OF DR. DAVID GUNN .............. 156
I. THE RADICAL ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT ................ 160
II. ANTI-ABORTION STRATEGY AND TACTICS ................. 163
A. Vandalism and Violence ......................... 164
B. Fake Abortion  Clinics  ..........................      167
C. Harassment and Intimidation ........................ 171
D. Abuse of Aborted Fetuses ........................ 173
HI. OBTAINING FEDERAL JURISDICTION AGAINST
ANTI-ABORTION VIOLENCE ....................... 174
A. The Need for Federal Jurisdiction .................... 174
B. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 ..................... 176
1. The History of the Challenge .................... 176
2. Previous § 1985(3) Claims ..................... 177
3. The  Bray Decision  ..........................       178
4. What the Court Should Have Decided ............... 183
5. The Consequences of Bray ..................... 187
a. The Viability of Pre- Bray Injunctions ............ 188
b. Future Claims Under § 1985(3) ................. 191
C. Civil RICO and Scheidler  .......................193
D. The Sherman Antitrust Act  .......................199
IV. PROSPECTIVE FEDERAL LEGISLATION ................... 203
A. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1993 ...... 203
1. Description of the Statute ....................... 203
2. Constitutionality of the Statute ................... 206
B. The Freedom of Choice Act ....................... 214
C. The Equal Rights Amendment ...................... 217
f  Judicial Clerk, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, B.A. Stanford University, 1990,
J.D. Harvard Law School, 1993. This article was originally written as a paper for Professor Martha Field's
seminar on reproductive rights at Harvard Law School in the fall of 1992.
Copyright © 1994 by the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism

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