Blog of Rights

$4.1 Million Settlement Puts Jails on Notice: Shackling Pregnant Women is Unlawful

By Amy Fettig, National Prison Project at 5:52pm
Every year in the United States babies are born to women who are literally in chains – shackled to their delivery beds even in the act of labor. Thankfully, ... Read More

The Best Way to Honor Servicewomen This Memorial Day

By Francesca Acocella, Women's Rights Project & Elayne Weiss, Washington Legislative Office at 3:15pm
This Memorial Day, we can show the women serving in the military how grateful we are for their brave service by giving them the same opportunities to serve, and the ... Read More

Twelve More Lawsuits, Still No Case

By Sarah Lipton-Lubet, Washington Legislative Office at 12:55pm
Every few weeks, opponents of birth control manage to garner some media attention by objecting – again – to the federal contraceptive coverage rule, which ... Read More

This Week in Civil Liberties (5/18/12)

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 3:22pm
Which law could be used to restrict the right to protest at next week’s NATO summit? Which government watch list can you get on but are entirely at the ... Read More

Bubba And His Poor, Pitiful Women

By Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, Reproductive Freedom Project at 12:10pm
Yesterday, a video leaked of Mississippi Representative Lester "Bubba" Carpenter (pictured above) gloating that he and his anti-choice cronies had passed ... Read More

On the Agenda: Week of May 14–18, 2012

By Suzanne Ito, ACLU at 12:39pm
This week the House will debate the NDAA for fiscal year 2013. We'll be monitoring the debate and pulling for an amendment that fixes the terrible detention ... Read More

Respecting Moms on Mother's Day

By Tiseme Zegeye, Women's Rights Project at 10:27am
This Mother's Day, we need to work towards a country where women's work is truly respected and valued both inside and outside of the home. Read More

Will Kansas Legislators Encourage Doctors to Lie and Deny Sick Women Care?

By Elissa Berger, Advocacy and Policy Counsel at 1:47pm
The Kansas House passed an unwieldy 70-page bill, chock full of troubling provisions aimed at depriving a woman from receiving accurate information about her ... Read More

Hello, Alabama? Can You Hear Us Now?

By Elissa Berger, Advocacy and Policy Counsel at 1:58pm
On the front lines of the war on women, the people of Alabama have a battle cry: Enough is Enough. Read More

Governor Brewer: Don’t Deny Women Access to Birth Control

By Anjali Abraham, Public Policy Director, ACLU of Arizona at 10:52am
The debate over access to contraception ain’t over yet. Earlier this year, the Arizona legislature introduced a bill that would allow employers to impose their ... Read More