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New Alabama Law Puts Teens Who Need Abortions on Trial. That's Dangerous and Cruel.
Picture this: You are 17 years old, in your senior year of high school, and you've just learned you're pregnant. You'd like to be able to turn to your parents for support but you know you can't. After all, they kicked your older sister out of the house when she got pregnant. But you have discussed your options with your aunt and a trusted counselor and decided to have an abortion.
By By Jennifer Dalven, Reproductive Freedom Project
Oklahoma's Response to Botched Execution: Hide the Next One from the Public
It's a dark day for Oklahoma. That metaphor is particularly apt this week, as the Sooner State just redoubled its commitment to keeping capital punishment in the shadows by hiding its lethal injection process from public view and oversight.
By By Lee Rowland, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
Securing Our Data Should Come First
This post was first published as part of the New York Times Room for Debate feature "Apple vs. the Law," which asked: How much should tech companies cooperate with the government on data access?
By By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project
Up to 20% of Border Patrol Drone Flights Are Inside the United States
The GAO released a report Tuesday on Customs and Border Patrol’s use of Predator drones in which it revealed that up to 20 percent of the CBP’s drone flight hours were spent in airspace inside “border and coastal areas."
By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
The Wal-Mart Model: Not Just for Retail, Now It’s for Private Prisons Too!
The nation's biggest and baddest for-profit prison company suddenly cares about halfway houses – so much so, that they want in on the action.
By Carl Takei, ACLU National Prison Project
Smokey Says, Get a Permit, Shutterbug
Well, sort of.
By By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
For One Young Black Man in Newark, 'The Talk' was about Police
This piece was originally published on NJ.com.
By By Michael Hobbs
DHS Argues It Has Evidence That Locking Up Immigrant Families Deters Migration. One Problem: It’s So Wrong.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to claim both the incredible and the disgraceful: that Central American mothers and children fleeing danger pose a "national security" threat to the United States and must be locked away.
By By Eunice Lee, Detention Attorney, ACLU, Immigrants' Rights Project
Welcoming "the Scrutiny of the World" on Human Rights
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, President Obama took a moment to reflect on America's domestic human rights record and the situation in Ferguson.
By By Jamil Dakwar, Director, ACLU Human Rights Program
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