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Advocates Updates
- Tell your representative you won't stand for new restrictions on abortion services
- Job opening: International Policy Manager
- Job opening: New Media Manager
- Fight the last-ditch attempt to restore abstinence-only funding
Tell your Senator to vote against the Hatch Amendment!
Publications
New Publications:
Responsible Education About Life (REAL) Act
- Study: Options are key in sex education curriculum (The Washington Post)
Sex education programs that encourage teens to delay sexual activity but also teach them how to reduce their chances of getting pregnant or a sexually transmitted disease cut risky sexual behavior
- Abortion Deal in Health Bill Sets Off Haggling in Congress (New York Times)
House Democratic leaders struggled Wednesday to strike a deal that would restrict the use of federal money to pay for abortions under sweeping health care legislation
- Gay couples: A close look at this modern family, parenting (USA Today)
So many gay couples today have kids that it has become a cultural phenomenon
- Maine Voters Repeal Law Allowing Gay Marriage
(New York Times)
In a stinging setback for the national gay-rights movement, Maine voters narrowly decided to repeal the state’s new law allowing same-sex marriage
- Democrats Near Deal on Abortion Coverage
(New York Times)
Struggling to finish their big health care legislation, House Democratic leaders signaled Tuesday that they were prepared to make several changes to the bill to satisfy abortion opponents
- AIDS: Panel Warns That Without New Direction, Epidemic Will Remain Out of Control at 50
Unless there is a drastic change in approach, the AIDS epidemic will still be out of control on its 50th
anniversary in 2031
by Emily Bridges, Director of Public Information Services
Through YOUR efforts, including lobby visits and hundreds of emails and phone calls to Congressional offices, the HIV travel ban has been lifted!
The travel ban on people living with HIV and AIDS was a discriminatory policy maintained by the United States government that automatically denied entry into the United States to non-U.S. citizens otherwise eligible for entry on the basis of their HIV-positive status. If a non-citizen was found traveling into the U.S. with HIV medication, they were arrested and placed on a flight home.
The US’s travel ban was controversial because there is no scientific or public health rationale from barring those with HIV from entering the country, since the virus is not spread by casual contact. The ban also meant that the important biennial International AIDS Conference could not be held in the United States. The U.S. was one of only about a dozen countries with these regulations.
