Month: February 2024

By Posted on Posted in Event

On Monday, February 26, 7:00 pm, at the Mid-County Library Branch, 7821 Maryland Avenue, we will meet to view the video, “Deciding Vote”. This NewYorker.com short documentary reconstructs the moral dilemma associated with the passage of the 1970 New York law that made that state a “pre-Rowe vs Wade” sanctuary for legal abortion.  Join us to share the video and our group reaction to it.  We will have some refreshments before the video. Please let us know you are coming through our MeetUp page but come in any case. Trivia question: “Which state was first to pass legislation legalizing abortion in the 1970s?”

Representative George Michaels in the NY

 

The initiative petition seeking to get the Missouri abortion ban rescinded will be available to sign at the meeting.  [This effort is not connected to our own AU suit against the state of Missouri, which would determine the ban to be unconstitutional because it infringes on religious freedom.]

 

By Posted on Posted in Event, Litigation, News

On January 25, our Chapter Treasurer, Hal Harris, presented an update on the status of the suit by AU and the Women’s Law Center against the state of Missouri to the Phelps County Democratic Club.  (AU is a non-partisan educational organization, but we present factual information to the public regardless of political affiliation.) We are suing on the ground that Missouri’s comprehensive and cruel abortion ban infringes on freedom of religion. The Missouri defendants (including the Governor, the Attorney General, and the health-related officers of the State) have tried to claim that the plaintiffs do not have standing and that judge should issue a summary judgement against us.  The claim that we did not have standing was dismissed within two weeks, but the second motion is under consideration.  A ruling was expected “in January”, but has not so far been issued. Any day now …