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Mar 29, 2010
Reform Our Immigration System AND Increase Our Privacy and Due Process Protections
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Mar 25, 2010
Prom for Everyone.
Learn more about the ACLU's work on promoting safe environments in our schools for all students. You can also join a Facebook page that now has over 400,000 supporters called "Let Constance Take Her Girlfriend to Prom".
There is also momentum building on the Student Non-Discrimination Act, which has already been introduced in the House. Congresswoman Pingree is already a co-sponsor of the bill (thank her!), but you can use this action center page to ask Rep. Michaud to join as well.
Mar 24, 2010
Urge President Obama to Try the 9/11 Suspects in Federal Court
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Senator Lindsey Graham has submitted draft legislation to the White House that creates a framework for handling terrorism suspects. In the afterglow of Obama's health care victory, it's easy to imagine the White House striking a conciliatory note and capitulating to dangerous recommendations.
Mar 23, 2010
Successes and Setbacks
(Originally posted on Daily Kos.)
"Whatever you may think about health care reform, we can all agree that our federal government made history last night when the House of Representatives passed legislation that promises to improve access to health care for millions of Americans. The potential for this legislation is great and should be celebrated.
"Unfortunately, the struggle for health care reform came at a very high price for women’s reproductive health. Yes, the legislation includes some real gains: more women will be able to get family planning services, prenatal and maternity care, and life-saving screenings for cervical and breast cancer, among other critical reproductive health services. But when it comes to women being able to access abortion care, another kind of history was made.
"Despite all our efforts to ensure that health care reform did not undermine women’s ability to get the full range of reproductive health services, in the end, the reform package includes an arbitrary and burdensome requirement that stigmatizes abortion and creates hurdles for both the insurer that wants to include abortion care in its health plan and the insured who wants the coverage. The legislation requires anyone in the new health insurance exchange who purchases an insurance plan that covers abortion to write two separate checks — on
Mar 22, 2010
Please Circulate Widely
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