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Roe v. Wade & civil liberties >> VIDEO ACLU staff discuss the importance of reproductive freedom in ensuring the full-range of civil liberties ANNIVERSARY MATERIALS > The Equality Factor > In the Courts > In the Congress TAKE ACTION > Become a Reproductive Freedom Fighter! BLOG POSTINGS > Roe at 35 > A good night's sleep > Freedom isn't gendered Protect Women’s Access to Birth Control The Bush Administration has drafted a set of regulations that could seriously undermine the ability of American women to get birth control. The draft regulations put politics above women's health care needs. Read more >> TAKE ACTION > Protect Women's Access to Birth Control PRESS RELEASE > Proposed Bush Regulations Jeopardize Women’s Health (7/16/2008) Reproductive Rights in Prison Courts have made it clear that being incarcerated doesn’t mean a woman gives up her right to have an abortion any more than it means that she gives up her right to bear a child. Yet women in prison are continually denied access to basic reproductive health care. Read more below about what the ACLU is doing to protect reproductive rights in prison. PRESS RELEASES > ACLU Reminds "America's Toughest Sheriff" That He's Not Above The Law (8/7/2008) > Supreme Court Refuses to Review AZ Prison's Unconstitutional Abortion Policy (3/24/2008) > Federal Court Protects Access to Abortion Care for Prisoners in MO (1/22/2008) BLOGS & MULTIMEDIA > AUDIO: Oral Argument in Roe v. Crawford > BLOG: Access to Abortion in Prison (9/24/2007) FACT SHEETS & ARTICLES > Reproductive Rights at the Jailhouse Door > Pregnancy-Related Health Care in Prison or Jail Roe v. Wade: 35 Years January 22, 2008, marks the 35th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade. Watch the ACLU's new video and learn how reproductive freedom ensures the full-range of civil liberties. 2008 ANNIVERSARY MATERIALS > The Equality Factor > In the Courts: The year ahead > In the Congress: The year ahead TAKE ACTION > Become a Reproductive Freedom Fighter! PREVIOUS ROE V. WADE ANNIVERSARIES > 2007: The World We Want > 2006: Critical Times > 2005: A Question of Whose Moral Values > 2004: Keeping Abortion Safe & Legal > 2003: A Right Curtailed

ACLU Reminds America's Toughest Sheriff That He's Not Above The Law (8/7/2008)
PHOENIX - The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion yesterday to hold Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio in contempt for disobeying a court order that would allow women prisoners in Maricopa County to obtain timely, safe, and legal abortions. In addition, today's motion asks the court to provide additional safeguards for women prisoners seeking abortion care.

Proposed Bush Regulations Jeopardize Womens Health (7/16/2008)
Washington, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed its outrage at draft regulations proposed by the Bush administration that could jeopardize access to basic health care for millions of American women, and possibly compel women’s health clinics to hire individuals unwilling to perform everyday job duties.

ACLU Urges Congress to Do the Right Thing for Young Americans (6/24/2008)
Washington, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union urges both the Senate and House of Representatives to act in the best interest of young people and eliminate funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. It will be a critical week as two of the largest federal funding streams for such programs are slated for consideration. In the Senate, the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies marked up the FY09 appropriations bill today, including an allocation for the Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program; the Senate Appropriations Committee will meet on Thursday, June 26th. In the House, the Appropriations Committee will also meet this Thursday to ratify the subcommittee recommendations, which last week included flat-funding for CBAE.

Subcommittee Votes to Continue Funding Disproven Abstinence-Only Programs (6/19/2008)
Washington, DC – The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies today voted to continue funding the Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program, an abstinence-only-until-marriage funding stream that supports programs that include inaccurate and misleading information.

Tennessee Organizations Call On Fowler To Stop Misleading The Public On SJR127 (4/29/2008)
Five Tennessee organizations joined forces today to declare that state legislators should look beyond the election year rhetoric of the promoters of SJR127, including former State Senator-turned-lobbyist David Fowler. "Just say NO is our message," according to Judy Poulson, President of the League of Women Voters of Tennessee.