Site architect Neal Horsley is trying to cast his new project as enterprising journalism. Based in Carrollton, Ga., Horsley is now advertising for antiabortion protesters to become "reporters, news photographers and camera people" for what he is calling "the Christian Gallery News Service." And as reporters, Horsley insists, "the full protection of the First Amendment Freedom of the Press is available as we provide this vital news service to the American people and the people of the world."

It's tough for his many critics to see Horsley as a journalist. He's been a leading frontman for the violent underground group Army of God, and his Christian Gallery News Service is probably the first and only news agency organized for the sole purpose of intimidating women from exercising their constitutional right to an abortion.

"Ask yourself this," Horsley writes: "If you were pregnant, would you be more or less likely to go kill your baby if you knew there was a possibility your picture would be published in a place where your friends and family and the whole world might see it. Only a liar would deny it: you would be less likely."

The Nuremberg Files may be best known for its part in a landmark federal lawsuit in Portland, Ore., Planned Parenthood vs. American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA). The suit, brought by Planned Parenthood, the Portland Feminist Women's Health Center and several doctors, contends that publishing the names, addresses and photos and other personal information of abortion providers -- in the form of Old West-style wanted posters as well as the postings on Horsley's site -- constituted a threat to abortion providers.

A federal jury found for the plaintiffs, and ordered the ACLA and its leaders to pay $109 million in damages. The verdict led several Internet providers, including Mindspring and Hypermart, to ban Horsley's site. Then in March, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed the jury verdict and the injunction against continued publishing of the controversial materials. "Political speech may not be punished just because it makes it more likely that someone will be harmed at some unknown time in the future by an unrelated third party," the panel ruled.

The plaintiffs are seeking a hearing by the full court, which is expected to decide this summer whether to hear the case. Whatever the outcome, both sides expect it will eventually go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, Horsley's efforts to wrap his webcam plan in the mantle of the First Amendment will probably only serve to further intensify the debate. "We intend to stream a steady collection of pictures showing the people who go out to where they slaughter babies for a living," Horsley announced in a recent letter to supporters. "Live Web Cams (Abortioncams.com) Are Now Rolling!"

In fact, no videos are yet rolling; so far the site includes only still photos of doctors and staff, as well as patients and clinic defenders, usually in front of clinics. But the photos and later the streaming images are being published on the same site where dozens of names of doctors, clinic workers and law enforcement officers are crossed out or printed in gray, depending on whether they were killed or wounded by antiabortion violence.

The tactic may represent a shift in focus for the militant wing of the movement as well. According to Horsley, the antiabortion movement has mistakenly viewed women as "victims" of an evil abortion industry. In a recent fundraising letter, he compares women seeking abortions to "serial murderers." He says that women know the difference between right and wrong and should therefore be "punished."

"Why," he asks, "should infanticides be treated differently?"

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