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ACLU Comments to Community-Based Abstinence Education Performance Progress Report (11/24/2008)

ACLU Comments on Health and Human Service's Proposed Rule Change Regarding Provider Conscience Regulation (09/25/2008)

ACLU Coalition Letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt (07/22/2008)
The undersigned medical, public health, religious, advocacy, and research groups committed to women's health strongly oppose the Department of Health and Human Services’ draft regulations that could significantly limit women’s access to basic reproductive health services, including some of the most common forms of birth control. If implemented, these regulations may preempt state laws that protect women’s access to health care and undermine the nation’s fragile network of safety net providers that serve low income women. We strongly urge the Department to immediately abandon its effort to bring about these ill-conceived and harmful policy changes.

ACLU Written Statement For a Hearing on Domestic Abstinence-Only Programs: Assessing the Evidence (04/23/2008)

ACLU Letter Opposing Vitter Amendment to Indian Health Care Improvement Act (02/26/2008)
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a nonpartisan public interest organization dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of individuals, and its hundreds of thousands of activists, members, and fiftythree affiliates nationwide, we urge you to oppose Senator Vitter’s amendment to “recodify” the Hyde Amendment in Indian Health Service law. The Vitter amendment is unnecessary because it restates current law. It is also bad policy because the Hyde Amendment marginalizes and stigmatizes abortion care and discriminates against a vulnerable population by undermining low-income women’s ability to access a fundamental reproductive right.

In Congress: The year ahead for reproductive rights (01/22/2008)

Emergency Contraception Education Act Coalition Letter (09/07/2007)

ACLU Global Gag Rule Letter (09/06/2007)

Letter From Over 100 Organizations Opposing Abstinence Only Education Funding for Fiscal Year 08 (07/18/2007)

ACLU Letter Opposing Funding for Abstinence Education in Fiscal Year 08 (07/18/2007)