A New Mexico man who said he was upset that his girlfriend had an abortion bought a highway billboard and accused her of killing their child.
The billboard, in south-central New Mexico, shows 35-year old Greg Fultz holding the outline of a baby in his arms. It reads "This Would Have Been A Picture of My 2-month-Old Baby If the Mother Had Decided to NOT Kill Our Child!"
Fultz's ex-girlfriend calls the billboard harassment and invasion of privacy, and
has taken him to court under the New Mexico Family Violence Protection Act. But Fultz says he's exercising his First Amendment rights, said his attorney, Todd Holmes.
"Citizens have the right to express their speech through any media and he chose a billboard," Holmes told Reuters on Tuesday. "We feel a billboard fits within the First Amendment even if it's offensive to some."
A petition filed by Fultz' ex-girlfriend said that Fultz had a pattern of stalking and harassment, including posting "intimate cyber shots of me from one of our cyber dates," she wrote. The domestic abuse petition also requested that the billboard be removed and online harassment stopped.
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Seriously? A Billboard isn't going to change a thing. So in my eyes dude is just being spiteful. Besides that dude is in his thirties and his ex was only 18 at the time. I try not to be judgmental about such things. I realize in a different era it was common place. I know this. But, "C'mon Son!!" What's a 30 + year old man doing in a relationship with someone half his age? On top of that ole girl told him put a ring on it or I'm not having this baby. He didn't step up to the plate and now after the fact wants to be all outraged and stalkerish? I don't get it.
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