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ACLU Statement Submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee (09/26/2008)
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and its hundreds of thousands of members, activists, and fifty-four affiliates nationwide, we thank the Senate Judiciary Committee for holding a hearing examining the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear on women’s equality in the workplace. We thank the Committee for holding the hearing record open, and we respectfully submit this statement for the record.

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

Letter regarding the Violence Against Indian Women Task Force meetings on August 20-21, 2008 (08/20/2008)
The American Civil Liberties Union, the National American Indian Housing Council and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty submitted the attached comments regarding housing and violence against women for consideration by the Department of Justice’s Violence Against Indian Women Task Force.

ACLU Letter to House in Support of the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 1338) (07/30/2008)
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, a non-partisan organization with hundreds of thousands of activists and members and 53 affiliates nationwide, we urge you to support the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 1338) and to oppose any weakening amendments or any motion to recommit. H.R. 1338 amends the Equal Pay Act, one of the primary laws addressing pay discrimination. Because of this bill’s critical role in promoting fairness for American workers, the ACLU intends to score this vote.

ACLU Letter to House Education & Labor Committee in Support of the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 1338) (07/24/2008)
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, a non-partisan organization with hundreds of thousands of activists and members and 53 affiliates nationwide, we thank you for your leadership in bringing the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 1338) before the Committee. We urge members of the Committee to support Representative Miller’s substitute bill and to oppose any weakening amendments. H.R. 1338, as amended, would update the Equal Pay Act, one of the primary laws addressing pay discrimination.

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 Comments Submitted to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Leavitt (05/19/2008)
The American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) submits these comments1 on the proposed rule published at 73 Fed. Reg. 20900 (April 17, 2008) to implement the “pledge requirement” of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003, set forth at 22 U.S.C. § 7631(f) (Leadership Act). As applied to U.S. individuals and entities, the requirement that non-governmental organizations receiving federal funds must have a “policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking” is a fundamental restriction on speech that cannot withstand First Amendment scrutiny. The proposed regulation regarding the “organizational integrity” of entities engaged in HIV/AIDS programs and activities” fails to cure the constitutional defect; if anything, the proposed rule only exacerbates the constitutional infirmities.

ACLU Letter to the Senate Urging A Yes Vote on H.R. 2831, The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007 (04/21/2008)

ACLU Comments Submitted to the US Department of Labor on the Family Medical Leave Act (04/11/2008)
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and its hundreds of thousands of members, activists, and fifty-three affiliates nationwide, we thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on the United States Department of Labor’s (DOL) notice of proposed rulemaking and request for comments dated February 11, 2008. The ACLU strongly concurs with the comprehensive comments submitted today by the National Partnership for Women and Families and the other signatories to their letter. We support and agree with their discussion of and recommendations regarding the proposed rules, especially with respect to those issues the ACLU raised in our response, dated February 16, 2007, to the DOL’s Request for Information. We are also submitting this letter to echo and amplify the National Partnership's comments with respect to the proposed rules relating to medical privacy and waiver of judicial or agency review of settlement agreements.

Letter Urging Governor Crist to Veto Sex Segregation Law (04/10/2008)
On April 10, 2008 the ACLU of Florida and the ACLU Women's Rights Project sent a letter to Governor Crist of Florida, urging him to veto S.B. 242, which would amend state law to permit public schools to segregate students by sex.