On Feb. 16, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that destroying frozen embryos harvested for in vitro fertilization (IVF) violated the state’s Wrongful Death of a Child Act. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by people whose embryos were destroyed during a 2020 break-in at a Mobile clinic that provided IVF services.“The People of Alabama …
Reproductive Rights
Update on the abortion petition and other issues
Over 1.4 million registered Florida voters signed the petition to put a guarantee to abortion access on Florida’s 2024 ballot. The Floridians Protecting Freedom ballot initiative campaign Statewide Organizing Calls Register here for 12/21.Register here for 12/28. More information from our allies Defend Free Speech on Campus w/Planned ParenthoodJanuary 24th-25th (Details to be announced)The Board …
Put Abortion On the Ballot
Excerpt from email: The constitutional amendment petition needs more than 800,000 signatures before February. That’s a tall order, and secular Floridians must show up in strong support. FFRF Action Fund is asking you to take the following actions: The only organized opposition to abortion rights is religious in nature. Please help ensure that the separation …
Women’s Health Care Bills before the Florida legislature
The decision to continue her pregnancy rests with the woman as do her other health care decisions. As with all people, the woman may consult her family, her doctor, or/and other trusted advisors about her health care decisions BUT the government should not decrease her access to quality health care. Urge the chairs of the …
Roe v. Wade was not the beginning of women having abortions
Roe v. Wade was not the beginning of women having abortions, it was the end of women dying from abortions. When Roe v. Wade was upheld by the USSC in 1973, the GOP and many others applauded the ruling. But the Christian Nationalists decided that abortion would be a good public policy issue from which …
Do you have a minute to write your US Representative and President Biden?
I don’t post many federal issues since I think most of you are signed up for national alerts. Please check out the resources tab if you’re not getting the national alerts. If you have a few minutes, please consider the below calls to action. In the years since the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was enacted …