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Roe v. Wade & civil liberties >> VIDEO ACLU staff discuss the importance of reproductive freedom in ensuring the full-range of civil liberties ANNIVERSARY MATERIALS > The Equality Factor > In the Courts > In the Congress TAKE ACTION > Become a Reproductive Freedom Fighter! BLOG POSTINGS > Roe at 35 > A good night's sleep > Freedom isn't gendered Reproductive Rights in Prison Courts have made it clear that being incarcerated doesn’t mean a woman gives up her right to have an abortion any more than it means that she gives up her right to bear a child. Yet women in prison are continually denied access to basic reproductive health care. Read more below about what the ACLU is doing to protect reproductive rights in prison. PRESS RELEASES > Supreme Court Refuses to Review AZ Prison's Unconstitutional Abortion Policy (3/24/2008) > Federal Court Protects Access to Abortion Care for Prisoners in MO (1/22/2008) BLOGS & MULTIMEDIA > AUDIO: Oral Argument in Roe v. Crawford > BLOG: Access to Abortion in Prison (9/24/2007) FACT SHEETS & ARTICLES > Reproductive Rights at the Jailhouse Door > Pregnancy-Related Health Care in Prison or Jail Roe v. Wade: 35 Years January 22, 2008, marks the 35th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade. Watch the ACLU's new video and learn how reproductive freedom ensures the full-range of civil liberties. 2008 ANNIVERSARY MATERIALS > The Equality Factor > In the Courts: The year ahead > In the Congress: The year ahead TAKE ACTION > Become a Reproductive Freedom Fighter! PREVIOUS ROE V. WADE ANNIVERSARIES > 2007: The World We Want > 2006: Critical Times > 2005: A Question of Whose Moral Values > 2004: Keeping Abortion Safe & Legal > 2003: A Right Curtailed

ACLU Urges Congress to Do the Right Thing for Young Americans (6/24/2008)
Washington, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union urges both the Senate and House of Representatives to act in the best interest of young people and eliminate funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. It will be a critical week as two of the largest federal funding streams for such programs are slated for consideration. In the Senate, the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies marked up the FY09 appropriations bill today, including an allocation for the Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program; the Senate Appropriations Committee will meet on Thursday, June 26th. In the House, the Appropriations Committee will also meet this Thursday to ratify the subcommittee recommendations, which last week included flat-funding for CBAE.

Subcommittee Votes to Continue Funding Disproven Abstinence-Only Programs (6/19/2008)
Washington, DC – The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies today voted to continue funding the Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program, an abstinence-only-until-marriage funding stream that supports programs that include inaccurate and misleading information.

Tennessee Organizations Call On Fowler To Stop Misleading The Public On SJR127 (4/29/2008)
Five Tennessee organizations joined forces today to declare that state legislators should look beyond the election year rhetoric of the promoters of SJR127, including former State Senator-turned-lobbyist David Fowler. "Just say NO is our message," according to Judy Poulson, President of the League of Women Voters of Tennessee.

Evidence Once Again Shows Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Dont Work (4/23/2008)
Washington, DC – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing today titled "Domestic Abstinence-Only Programs: Assessing the Evidence." The ACLU applauds Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) for bringing new attention to this deeply troubling policy and the committee’s willingness to examine the public health policy implications of abstinence-only programs. We look forward to the testimony of scientists, clinicians, researchers and youth activists who will report on the failures of abstinence-only education programs.

Wisconsin Court Upholds Discipline of Pharmacist Who Refused to Refill Birth Control Pill Prescription (3/25/2008)
MADISON - The American Civil Liberties Union said today's decision by a Wisconsin court allowing the state's discipline of a pharmacist who refused to refill a prescription for birth control pills strikes an important balance between religious liberty and women's health.