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Individual Liberties

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Women's Health

LWVUS Public Policy on Reproductive Rights

(For Complete position: Impact on Issues, pg. 57) The League's Position Statement of Position on Public Policy on Reproductive Rights, as announced by the National Board, January 1983:
The League of Women Voters of the United States believes that public policy in a pluralistic society must affirm the constitutional right of privacy of the individual to make reproductive choices.

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A majority of people support safe, legal access to abortion. So why is it under threat?

Submitted by Northwest Wayne County in March 2020.

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Hint: It has to do with Partisan Gerrymandering

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Black Suffragists Helped Lead Charge in Women's Voting Rights Campaign

Black Suffragists

Submitted by Northwest Wayne County in March 2020.

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Often left out of the history of women’s suffrage is the role of black women in that effort. The predominantly black service sorority Delta Sigma Theta’s first public act was to participate in the Women’s Suffrage March of 1913.

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Establishment of a Coos County Human Rights Commission

Submitted by Coos County in October 2019.

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The League of Women Voters of Coos County supports the establishment and the continuation of an official Coos County Human Rights Commission.
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