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ACLU Applauds South Dakotans’ Efforts to Protect Women’s Health and Safety in Light of Extreme Abortion Ban (05/30/2006)
PIERRE, SD -- The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded the efforts of South Dakotans to protect women’s health and safety in light of an extreme and dangerous abortion ban. The South Dakota Campaign for Health Families brought petitions with over 37,800 signatures today to the state capitol in order to place a repeal of the ban on the November ballot.

ACLU Urges Congress to Protect Access to Safe, Effective Abortion Pill, Says Lawmakers Must Put Science Before Politics (05/17/2006)
WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today urged Congress to put science before politics as the House Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources held hearings on the government’s approval of the early-option abortion pill, also known as RU-486.

ACLU Asks Court to Uphold Decision Allowing Inmates To Access Abortion Care (05/12/2006)
PHOENIX – The American Civil Liberties Union today asked an Arizona court of appeals to uphold a lower court decision allowing inmates access to timely, safe, and legal abortions.

ACLU Decries Congress’s Failure to Make Emergency Contraception Available to Military Women (05/11/2006)
WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union today decried Congress’s failure to support legislation that would have made emergency contraception available at all military health care facilities. In 2002, the Department of Defense removed the safe and effective contraceptive from its Basic Core Formulary, making it much less likely that the drug will be stocked on military bases.

ACLU Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Review Tennessee’s Anti-Choice License Plate Program (05/01/2006)
NASHVILLE - The American Civil Liberties Union today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court decision upholding an anti-choice specialty license plate in Tennessee, saying that the specialty license plate program violates the free speech rights of some Tennessee residents.

ACLU Hails Federal Appeals Court Ruling Delaying Production of Tennessee’s Anti-Choice License Plate (04/21/2006)
NASHVILLE - The American Civil Liberties Union today hailed a federal appeals court decision delaying Tennessee’s production of an anti-choice specialty license plate while the organization seeks U.S. Supreme Court review of a ruling upholding the plate as constitutional.

ACLU Says Colorado Governor’s Veto of Emergency Contraception Legislation Puts Politics Above Women’s Health (04/14/2006)
DENVER – The American Civil Liberties Union today denounced a decision by the Governor of Colorado to veto legislation that would have allowed women to obtain emergency contraception (EC) directly from a pharmacist without needing a doctor’s prescription.

ACLU Asks Federal Appeals Court to Delay Tennessee’s Production of Anti-Choice License Plate (04/07/2006)
NASHVILLE - The American Civil Liberties Union today asked a federal appeals court to delay Tennessee’s production of an anti-choice specialty license plate while the organization seeks U.S. Supreme Court review of a ruling upholding the plate as constitutional.

ACLU Welcomes Introduction of the Federal "Freedom of Choice Act," Says Legislation Needed to Protect Women’s Health and Rights (04/07/2006)
WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today welcomed the introduction of the "Freedom of Choice Act," federal legislation aimed at ensuring that the government does not stand in the way of women getting the reproductive health care they need. The bill calls upon Congress to protect the right to privacy and a woman’s ability to have a child or to end a pregnancy.

ACLU Applauds Court Decision Reversing Conviction Denying Pregnant Women in Texas Their Rights (03/30/2006)
AMARILLO, TX – The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded a unanimous decision by a state court of appeals in Texas reversing the convictions of two pregnant women accused of delivering a controlled substance to their fetuses.

ACLU Applauds Defeat of Abortion Ban in Mississippi (03/28/2006)
JACKSON, MS -- The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded the defeat of a dangerous and extreme abortion ban late last night in the Mississippi legislature.