Two more attacks on women's health care in the House Agriculture Committee:

  • House Bill 2093 imposes on private and government employers burdensome training and compliance obligations regarding abuse and neglect reporting, even for staff that have no contact with patients seeking birth control, birth control counseling, sex education, gynecological care and services, abortions, abortion referrals or abortion counseling. Current law already contains rigorous reporting requirements for licensed health care providers, including doctors, nurses and social workers. Imposing these obligations on office staff and secretaries is nothing but an effort to burden these service providers. Download the fact sheet.

  • House Bill 3156 seeks to upend the current evident-based regulatory system created and enforced by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) under which abortion facilities have been safely regulated for two decades. The measure will not advance patient health and safety, but will significantly increase costs and decrease access to abortion services in Illinois. 92% of Illinois counties already have no abortion provider. These costly and unnecessary regulations will force many remaining facilities to close – leaving more women without access to essential health care. Download the fact sheet.

Urge members of the House Agriculture Committee to vote NO on House Bill 2093 and House Bill 3156. The committee is next scheduled to meet on Tuesday, March 8th.

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Friday, March 4, 2011 - 9:00am

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From ACLU national's Blog of Rights:

Some schools have improperly configured their web-filtering software to illegally censor LGBT-related websites such as the GSA Network and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. At the same time that they block access to websites for positive LGBT rights organizations, those schools still allow access to anti-LGBT sites that condemn LGBT people or urge us to try to change our sexual orientation. This is called viewpoint discrimination, and it’s illegal.

Beyond being illegal, when schools block access to positive LGBT information, they block information that could be vital for troubled LGBT youth who either don’t have access to the Internet at home or don’t feel safe accessing such information on their home computers.

If you’re a public high school student and would like to know more about your school’s web filter, read the full blog post and check out the video showing how to test whether your school is illegally filtering content and how to report censorship.

Students who want to report unconstitutional web filtering at their schools can take action and fill out a form on the ACLU National webpage. Learn more about the ACLU’s work on LGBT school issues.

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Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 8:00pm

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On March 2, the American Civil Liberties Union argued before the United States Supreme Court that former Attorney General John Ashcroft should be held responsible for the wrongful arrest and detention of a U.S. citizen under the material witness law. The ACLU brought the case against Ashcroft in 2005 on behalf of Abdullah al-Kidd, a U.S. citizen who was improperly arrested and detained in 2003 as a material witness. The ACLU’s lawsuit charges that al-Kidd’s arrest was part of a pattern of pretextual material witness arrests that occurred after September 11, pursuant to a nationwide policy instituted by Ashcroft.

In a recent press release, Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, who argued the case on behalf of al-Kidd, commented on the merits of the case.

In America, we don’t just arrest people and lock them up without probable cause to believe they violated the law. The government officials who turned that unlawful practice into official policy — in clear violation of the Constitution — must be held accountable.

Learn more about the case al-Kidd v. Ashcroft.

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Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 7:52pm

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