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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.
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.
> 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 Regulations on Below the Waist
> NEWS: ACLU Calls Again for Withdrawal of Regulations Jeopardizing Women’s Health (9/26/2008)
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN PRISON
ACLU Reminds "America's Toughest Sheriff" That He's Not Above the Law
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.
> NEWS: Supreme Court Refuses to Review AZ Prison's Unconstitutional Abortion Policy (3/24/2008)
> NEWS: Federal Court Protects Access to Abortion Care for Women Prisoners in Missouri (1/22/2008)
> ARTICLE: Reproductive Rights at the Jailhouse Door
> BLOG: No One Is Above the Law, Not Even Joe Arpaio (8/7/2008)
> AUDIO: Oral Argument in Roe v. Crawford
> FACT SHEET: Pregnancy-Related Health Care in Prison or Jail
ABORTION
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.
BLOG POSTINGS
> Roe at 35
> A good night's sleep
> Freedom isn't gendered
2008 ANNIVERSARY MATERIALS
> The Equality Factor
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
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