This week on Radio Civil Liberties, the New York Civil Liberties Union expressed its outrage at draft regulations proposed by the Bush administration that could jeopardize access to basic health care services for millions of women in New York and across the country. The draft regulations, which apply to several laws governing the use of federal funds by states and health care facilities, limit access to birth control and deliberately confuse the definition of contraception and abortion.
As currently drafted, the regulations could:
- Allow federally funded health care professionals and institutions to refuse reproductive health services, including common forms of birth control.
- Undermine existing New York laws that protect women’s access to birth control.
- Compel women’s health clinics in New York to hire individuals unwilling to provide basic health services.
In our first segment, we heard remarks by the junior Senator from New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at a Planned Parenthood press conference denouncing the draft regulations as a threat to the health of every woman in America.
In our followup segment to the NYCLU/ACLU lawsuit regarding the
Congressional roll-over on the dragnet warrantless wiretapping law, our second segment this week includes remarks from the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington Legislative Office, Caroline Frederickson who recently appeared at a panel discussion sponsored by the Center for American Progress.
Congressional roll-over on the dragnet warrantless wiretapping law, our second segment this week includes remarks from the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington Legislative Office, Caroline Frederickson who recently appeared at a panel discussion sponsored by the Center for American Progress. 
Our last report this week included an update on a secret memo authored by the Department of Justice (DOJ) asserting that President Bush has unlimited power to order brutal interrogations to extract information from detainees has been declassified as a result of an American Civil Liberties Union Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.*******
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