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Politech archive on "morphed" child porn law: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=morphed Text of Supreme Court decision: http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-795.ZS.html --- http://hatch.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=182317 Press Release of Senator Hatch HATCH STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT'S DECISION REGARDING VIRTUAL CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Contact: Margarita Tapia, 202.224.5225 Tuesday, April 16, 2002 Washington - Sen. Orrin G. Hatch today issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court's decision in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition in response to numerous media inquiries: "I am obviously disappointed, but respect the Court's pronouncement in the Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition case," stated Hatch. "Child pornography and the exploitation of children continue to be serious problems in our country and abroad. I am committed to using every effort to curtail, and hopefully stop, the sexual exploitation of children. I was proud of drafting the legislation, seeing President Clinton sign it into law, and will be studying the Court's opinion to see exactly how we can craft new legislation to punish the sexual exploitation of children consistent with the Court's decision." Senator Hatch sponsored the Child Pornography Prevention Act that amended federal child pornography statutes to establish a definition of child pornography to include any visual depiction, such as a photograph, film, videotape or computer image, that is produced by any means, including electronically by computer, of sexually explicit conduct to be classified as child pornography if: its production involved the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or it depicts, or appears to depict, a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or it is promoted or advertised as depicting a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------