FC: Abortionismurder.org buys domains similar in name to newspapers

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-abort11.html

Deceptive names promote anti-abortion site

July 11, 2002

BY KATE N. GROSSMAN STAFF REPORTER
Chicago Sun-Times

An anti-abortion activist is buying up Internet domain names with slight
variations on names of major news outlets, businesses and the National
Organization for Women and linking them to a Web site profiling gruesome
pictures of bloody, aborted fetuses.

In the last week, William Purdy, a self-described free speech advocate and
"abortion abolitionist" has bought about 30 names. They include references
to the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, actor Gary
Coleman and commentator Alan Colmes.

Purdy said he targeted businesses and individuals that he considers to be
pro-choice.

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