WAP was actually Women Against Pornography and they testified before Meese Commission.
Their remarks were entered into the record.
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When the Final Report was issued, WAP called a triumphant press conference. In a joint statement, Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon crowed over the Commission's endorsement of their ordinance, which defines and bans pornography as a violation of women's civil rights. They never mentioned the minor hitch that the ordinance had already been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court because it would proscribe material that is protected by the First Amendment. [9] Perhaps they had not read the full text of the Commission's recommendation of their ordinance, which contains the demurrer that, of course, "The only constitutionally permissible approach...is to reach material containing sexually violent or...degrading material when it is legally obscene." [10] It takes more than a press conference to hide the fact that WAP was hoodwinked, coopted, and used.
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