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Apr 18, 2012
ACLU participates in Hearing on Ending Racial Profiling in America
On April 17th, a most remarkable thing happened in Washington, DC. Illinois Senator Richard Durbin gaveled to order a hearing on racial profiling. The hearing, held in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, marked the very first time that the Congress of the United States has considered questions on racial profiling since before the terrorist attacks of the 9/11.
Feb 23, 2012
Women are Not Heifers – Or Any Other Form of Livestock
Some members of the Illinois General Assembly once again are playing politics with women’s health -- and threatening our access to contraception and abortion! For the second year in a row, anti-contraception/anti-abortion legislators sent restrictive reproductive health bills to the House Agriculture and Conservation Committee. I grew up in North Dakota – an agricultural state if there ever was one – and, based on what I saw in the House Ag Committee this past Tuesday, it is time to muck out the barn by publicizing the inappropriateness of sending women’s health bills to a Committee that simultaneously insisted on its expertise in women’s health issues and then failed to ask a single question of the doctor who appeared to oppose two bills that pose a serious threat to women’s health.
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