"We should not relinquish our names or identities for the misguided protectionism that has always kept us from full citizenship," she said.
But Marybeth Carter, president of the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault, firmly disagreed with publicizing rape victims names.
"I challenge the theory that printing the victims' names in the paper removes the stigma," Carter said.
And Susan Estrich, professor of law at the University of Southern California, said involuntary disclosure would keep rape victims from coming forward. She was a rape victim and wrote about her experience in the book Real Rape.
"The humiliation being heaped on this particular woman has been unfair to her and is just the sort of thing that discourages other women from coming forward," she said.
Benjamin C. Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post, said his newspaper's policy is not to print names.
"We have our little square inch of principle and we are standing on it," Bradlee said.
Iain Calder, editor of the National Enquirer, said it has withheld the woman's name. "We took the high ground, and The New York Times took the low ground."