Sparked by cases where women were denied access to reproductive health care while incarcerated, the NYCLU launched an investigation of policies for provision of health care specific to female inmates in county jails. Joining us this week to discuss the NYCLU's investigation of access to reproductive healthcare for incarcerated women in New York State's Jails is the NYCLU Reproductive Rights Project Attorney Corinne Carey. Carey discusses the NYCLU efforts that sent Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests to 58 counties seeking information about access to a variety of reproductive health care services, including abortion, prenatal care, routine gynecological exams, contraception, testing and treatment for HIV or sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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Click Here to Listen to NYCLU's Reproductive Rights Project Attorney Corinne Carey discuss the quality of Reproductive Healthcare for incarcerated Women in New York State's Jails. (22mb .mp3)
UPDATE: The John Adams Project"It's Not About Revenge, This Is About Justice"
In this week's John Adam's Project update, we hear from Lorie van Auken, one of the September 11 Advocates. Van Auken tells us why it's important that true justice is served to the detainees at Guantánamo.
Van Auken is supporting the ACLU's John Adams Project, the ACLU's effort to an Auken is supporting the ACLU's John Adams Project, the ACLU's effort to assist in the legal representation of Guantánamo detainees.
You can learn more about the project, and read the September 11 Advocates' statement in support of it, at www.aclu.org/johnadams
You can learn more about the project, and read the September 11 Advocates' statement in support of it, at www.aclu.org/johnadams
Neil Sedaka ,
Merry Clayton
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Immortal Technique w/Mos Def and Eminem*
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PSA's and "Your Rights" from ACLU and the ACLU of Montana
