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Reproductive Freedom
The ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project protects everyone's right to make informed decisions free from government interference about whether and when to become a parent. Learn more about our work in reproductive health and take action to protect rights guaranteed to all Americans.
LATEST NEWS
Bush Administration Blocks Medical Services for Immigrant Teens in U.S. Care
The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court to order the Administration for Children and Families to release documents outlining U.S. policy limiting refugee and undocumented teenagers’ access to important reproductive health services.
(11/17/2008)
> BLOG: Alone, Vulnerable, and Without Access to Vital Reproductive Health Care (11/18/2008)
> LEGAL DOCUMENT: ACLUF v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. - Complaint for Injunctive Relief (11/17/2008)
VOTE '08: ABORTION
Decisive Victories for Reproductive Freedom
Voters in South Dakota, Colorado, and California stopped three ballot measures that would have seriously threatened the ability of women and families to make private health care decisions. Read More
ACLU FREEDOM ALERT
> PODCAST: Sondra Goldschein on the South Dakota Abortion Ban
> VIDEO: Roe v. Wade Under Fire (YouTube)
> VIDEO: Protect Private Medical Decisions (YouTube)
BLOG
> South Dakota Abortion Ban, Here We Go Again (10/7/2008)
> South Dakota Abortion Ban: The Sequel (10/6/2008)
RELIGION & REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM
Proposed Bush Rule Threatens Women's Health
The Bush administration's proposed regulations could seriously undermine the ability of American women to access health care, including birth control and abortion and puts politics above women's health care needs.
> NEWS: Women’s Health Organizations Urge Oversight Agency to Hold Bush Administration Accountable (11/17/2008)
> RESOURCE: ACLU Comments on Health and Human Service's Proposed Rule Change Regarding Provider Conscience Regulation
> BLOG: Proposed Bush Administration Rule Fails to Strike Balance Between Religious Liberty and Access to Health Care (9/30/2008)
> PODCAST: Louise Melling Discusses the Proposed Bush Rule
> NEWS: ACLU Calls Again for Withdrawal of Regulations Jeopardizing Women’s Health (9/26/2008)
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM
The World We Want
The world we want respects people's personal private decisions about forming intimate relationships and building secure and healthy families. And it helps ensure that everyone has the resources to make these decisions responsibly: from sex education to birth control to prenatal care to the option of abortion.
> VIDEO: Learn about the role of abortion as a core civil liberty
> BLOG: Read our reproductive rights blog postings
> TIMELINE: Important Reproductive Freedom Cases Decided by the Supreme Court
> TAKE ACTION: Become a Reproductive Rights Freedom Fighter
ROE V. WADE ANNIVERSARY STATEMENTS
> 2008: The Equality Factor
> 2007: The World We Want
> 2006: Critical Times
> 2005: A Question of Whose Moral Values
> 2004: Keeping Abortion Safe & Legal
> 2003: A Right Curtailed
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