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Reproductive Freedom

House Passes 20-Week Abortion Ban

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: 212-549-2666, media@aclu.org WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The White House has threatened to veto the legislation. More

06/17/2013
Immigration Reform 2013

Immigration Reform on the Senate Floor – A Procedural Maze and Lots of Border Talk

By Michael Macleod-Ball, Chief of Staff, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 1:57pm

The full U. S. Senate took up the potentially historic bill to overhaul the country's immigration system last week.

At the top of the week, things looked rosy. S. 744 flew through initial procedural hurdles to allowing the chamber to take up the bill, with rare flying colors. This might have led to a surge in optimism about the bill, especially given the heady tone of the markup sessions in the Senate Judiciary Committee just two weeks earlier.

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