The House Judiciary Committee has held eight anti-abortion or anti-family planning votes or hearings so far this Congress. This morning, they’re scheduled to make it nine. The Committee will be considering the so-called “District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” which would ban abortion in the District of Columbia at 20 weeks.
By Ian S. Thompson, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 5:45pm
The anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been asking presidential hopefuls to sign a pledge stating, among other things, that they would:
support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution barring recognition of marriages involving same-sex couples;
• defend the discriminatory and unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) against federal court challenges;
By Elayne Weiss, Washington Legislative Office & Vania Leveille, Washington Legislative Office at 11:55am
We're happy to report that last Wednesday, the Obama administration criticized a provision in a bill that bans the District of Columbia from using its own local funds to pay for abortion care for low-income women. The White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy, in which it stated that this provision "undermines the principle of states' rights and of D.C. home rule."
By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 4:30pm
If we do not limit the use of automated license plate readers, it will represent a significant step toward the creation of a surveillance society in the United States.
