Citizen Rights

Democratic government depends upon informed and active participation at all levels of government. Governmental bodies must protect the citizen’s right to know by giving adequate notice of proposed actions, holding open meetings, and making public records accessible.

Women's Inequality Day

Submitted by Alachua County in August 2022.

Event Date:

08/26/2022 - 12:00am to 11:45pm

August 26, otherwise known as Women's Equality Day, marks the anniversary of the certification of the 19th amendment, which granted some women the right to vote.

United Nations Building Place des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Submitted by Orange Coast in August 2022.

News

Statement from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

Photo of four women with text" Women's Inequality Day, August 26, 2022"

Submitted by The National Capital Area in August 2022.

Action Alerts

Submitted by Orange Coast in August 2022.

News

LWVUS Joins 25 International Organizations in Efforts to Protect Women’s Reproductive Rights Globally

By Kathleen Montgomery

LWVSC Alert: Committtees to hear bans in mid-August

Submitted by South Carolina in August 2022.

Action Alerts

Both houses are moving forward with abortion bans. The League opposes the proposed bans in their entirety. Read our testimonies:

8.16.2022 House Special Laws Subcommittee Testimony H.5399

8.17.2022 Senate Medical Affairs Committee Testimony S.1327, S.1373, S.1348

Submitted by South Carolina in July 2022.

Action Alerts

During the week of August 15, committees in both Houses will hear abortion bills:

House

H.5399 South Carolina Human Life Protection Act (draft)

Senate: S.1373 Equal Protection at Conception - No Exceptions – Act

Email all committee members NOW to #StopTheBansSC.

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in July 2022.

Blog Post

On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court released its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning the constitutional right to abortion. In so doing, they turned back the clock, looking almost exclusively at reproductive rights from the lens of the mid-1800s and earlier to determine whether the Constitution confers a right to abortion.

Submitted by Alachua County in July 2022.

Blog Post

Dear Members,
Let’s begin this message with some inspiration. Jay Rosenbek, co-chair of our Natural Resources Committee, has been accepted to serve on the Alachua County Environmental Protection Advisory Committee (EPAC).

Supreme Court Ruling Strikes Down Roe v. Wade

Submitted by PASADENA AREA in July 2022.

News

Submitted by South Carolina in June 2022.

Action Alerts

House Bill H.5399 would ban all abortions in all circumstances. This bill threatens the rights and bodily autonomy of women —not only our moral agency and personal dignity but our lives. The 2021 “heartbeat” law should be repealed and further attempts to restrict abortion prior to viability should cease.

Email to #StopTheBansSC. Read our testimony.

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Women's Inequality Day

CEDAW Statement on Women's Rights 2022

Statement from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

August 26, 2022 is Women's "Inequality Day"

International Relations News July 26 2022

LWVUS Joins 25 International Organizations in Efforts to Protect Women’s Reproductive Rights Globally

Stop the bans! Act now and be counted.

Committees to Meet; Stop the Abortion Bans!

Explaining SCOTUS's Abortion Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

President's Message, July 2022

Supreme Court Ruling Strikes Down Roe v. Wade

Repeal SC abortion restrictions; email the House Ad Hoc Committee

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