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🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Reynolds's attempt to resurrect a 6-week abortion ban law was turned down today by a district court. Abortion continues to be legal in Iowa.
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BREAKING: The Iowa Supreme Court has declined the Governor's radical proposal to immediately revisit its 24-hour decision and eliminate the right to safe and legal abortion in Iowa.
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👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻 This is why making it easier to vote is more important than ever.
At 102 years old, my great aunt, born the year of our last great
#pandemic
, made her way to the ballot box to cast her
#vote
. If she can do it, you can too!
#Vote
#VoteEarly
#Election2020
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Along with Planned Parenthood, we've won a temporary injunction from the Iowa Supreme Court on portions of Iowa's harmful new abortion law.
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📣 Abortion is safe.
📣 Abortion is legal.
📣 Abortion is a right.
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Reminder: Removing books from public schools and libraries because you don't like them is censorship.
It violates the First Amendment.
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Iowa's abortion restrictions threaten women's access to care. So we sued.
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BREAKING: An Iowa court granted our request to temporarily block the six-week abortion ban.
Abortion in Iowa remains safe and legal for now.
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A reminder that love won in 2009. ❤️
Iowa became the third state in the nation to establish marriage equality with Varnum v. Brien.
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BREAKING: With Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and
@EmmaGoldmanIowa
, we just filed a challenge to the 6-week abortion ban.
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A person can decide that they don't want to read a certain book.
They can decide that they don't want their child to read that book.
But they can't decide that an entire school or entire town can't read that book.
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Hundreds gathering in front of the Neal Smith Federal Building in Des Moines to show support for DACA recipients.
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Trans kids in Iowa deserve to be treated like other kids—with kindness, dignity, and respect.
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BREAKING: We just sent letters to 8 out of 10 schools involved in a lawsuit to protect children with disabilities, asking them to restore mask mandates immediately because they are in violation of a court ruling.
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BREAKING: The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously determined today that Gov. Reynolds cannot violate Iowa's Open Records law by failing to respond to journalists' public information requests.
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No one should be forced to carry a pregnancy against their will.
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ICYMI: An Iowa history teacher quit after realizing he couldn't clearly teach that slavery was wrong because of a new state law.
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Good. Our democracy is stronger when more people vote, not fewer.
From
@okayhenderson
: Governor Kim Reynolds will issue an executive order that automatically restores felon voting rights before the November election.
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To trans youth in Iowa:
You are loved.
You are not alone.
You belong.
We will fight for you every day.
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🎉 VICTORY: Iowa is no longer the only state in the country to permanently ban its citizens from voting following any felony conviction.
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To trans youth in Iowa:
You are loved.
You belong.
You are not alone.
We will fight for you every day.
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Good news!
Iowa legislators will NOT advance a bill to remove legal protections for transgender Iowans under the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
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🎉 BREAKING: A federal district court today ruled that the state can't enforce its ban of five
@DesMoinesBLM
protesters from the Iowa Capitol Complex grounds.
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Good news! Iowa City and Cedar Rapids schools are returning banned books to classrooms after a wrongful law was temporarily blocked.
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good morning to everyone except the iowa legislators who voted for a 6-week abortion ban
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54 years ago today, our clients Mary Beth and John made history in Tinker v. Des Moines.
They were suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
But this case made it crystal clear: The First Amendment protects public school students.
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This is mind-boggling.
Legislation has been introduced (HF 515) that would create a dystopian "digital marketing system" of pregnant women in Iowa so the government could track them down and talk them out of an abortion.
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The government cannot force students to stand for or sing the National Anthem.
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🎉🎉🎉 ICYMI: A judge ruled today that Iowa Medicaid must stop discriminating against transgender Iowans in medical coverage decisions.
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Reminder:
You can decide not to read a book.
You can decide your child will not read a book.
But you can't ban that book for an entire classroom, school, or state.
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14 years ago, love won.❤️
Iowa became the third state in the nation to establish marriage equality with Varnum v. Brien in 2009. We're not going back!
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Reminder: Removing books from public schools and libraries because you don't like them is censorship.
It violates the First Amendment.
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BREAKING: We’re suing to halt Iowa’s ban on mask mandates in schools.
This ban is discriminatory, and requires students with disabilities to risk their health in order to get an education.
It must be stopped.
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BREAKING: Gov. Reynolds just signed into law a near-total abortion ban that strips Iowans of the right to control their own bodies and futures.
This is a dark day for Iowa.
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Next step with Iowa's awful pending abortion law: Appealing to the Iowa Supreme Court. We'll keep fighting!
@PPHeartland
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Every kid, including trans and nonbinary kids, deserves to feel safe enough to bring their authentic self to school.
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trans kids in iowa deserve to be treated like other kids—with kindness, dignity, and respect
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What's scarier than ghosts, goblins, and witches on Halloween? Not voting to stop the attacks on our civil rights and civil liberties on November 6!
#HappyHalloween
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Reminder: Removing books from public schools and libraries because you don't like them is censorship.
It violates the First Amendment.
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ICYMI: The Meskwaki Nation is calling on 66 Iowa schools with Native 'themed' school mascots to retire them.
"These mascots degrade us, misrepresent who we are, and dismiss the many important contributions we have made—and continue to make—to this great country."
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Sergeant Leonard Matlovich was one of America’s first openly gay soldiers. His tombstone is a memorial to all LGBTQ veterans.
It reads: “When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
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1984.
The Handmaid's Tale.
Catcher in the Rye.
Beloved.
These are some of the books Urbandale teachers have been instructed to remove from their classrooms. Students are losing access to the most important works of our time.
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We’re at the Iowa State Capitol today to speak truth to power.
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Some Dubuque high school students walked out to protest anti-trans legislation. We love the posters they used!
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🎉 ICYMI: The Ames school board yesterday voted unanimously to end its school resource officer program for the next school year.
Good. Cops don't belong in schools.
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BREAKING: City leaders in Essex, Iowa, can't block the local Pride group from the Labor Day parade just because they don't like LGBTQ people. So we sent them a letter, advising them of the 1st Amendment free speech and expression rights of ALL community members.
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The Handmaid's Tale.
Ulysses.
The Color Purple.
These are some of the books Iowa City teachers have been instructed to remove from their classrooms. Students are losing access to the most important works of our time.
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Ben was the first openly transgender student at Cedar Falls High and ran boys' cross country.
He credits physically transitioning with possibly saving his life.
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In part because of the advocacy of two students, Des Moines Public Schools finally ended its harmful school resource officer program.
Now these two students, Endí Montalvo-Martinez and Lyric Sellers, have been awarded our Robert Mannheimer Youth Advocacy Award for their work. 🎉
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ICYMI: The Iowa Supreme Court today left intact a ruling upholding Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care.
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BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of five protesters who have been banned from the Iowa Capitol Complex — some for six months, and others for a year.
The Iowa State Patrol had no authority to ban the protesters and followed no law in doing so.
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15 years ago, love won.❤️
Iowa became the third state in the nation to establish marriage equality with Varnum v. Brien in 2009. We're not going back!
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more abortion access.
more abortion providers.
fewer politicians.
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🚨 BREAKING: We just filed a lawsuit on behalf of our clients to compel the Iowa Governor's Office to release public records regarding COVID-19 and other issues.
Gov. Reynolds is not above the law.
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Nearly one in four American women have an abortion at some point in their lives, for a variety of deeply personal reasons.
The majority of Iowans support the right to do so, and we will continue to fight to preserve it going forward.
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🗳 Iowa will be the only state left in our country that permanently bans people with felony convictions from voting. We can do better.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear to restore voting rights to over 100,000 former felons.
"They deserve to participate in our great democracy ... by taking this step, we declare that everyone counts in Kentucky. We all matter,” he said.
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BREAKING. Gov. Reynolds has signed into law a ban on trans girls in girl’s school sports.
This is a dark day for Iowa.
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BREAKING: Unlike the State of Iowa, Polk County will pay for rape victim's emergency contraception--which merely prevents the sperm from fertilizing the egg.
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This truly is a historic day for transgender Iowans, their friends, and families.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Just because a book contains a depiction of sex does NOT mean it's porn.
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not allowing classrooms to discuss systemic racism IS systemic racism
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BREAKING: A big win for
#transgender
rights! Today the Iowa Supreme Court upheld the rights of former Department of Corrections nurse Jesse Vroegh. He was denied insurance for medically necessary surgery and banned from men's rest and locker rooms simply because he's transgender.
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How ironic that the first female attorney in the United States—Arabella Mansfield of Burlington, Iowa—had to defy laws on only men taking the bar exam and then had to take legal action to change laws in order to become a practicing lawyer?
#WomensHistoryMonth
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If the government has the power to control our reproductive rights, we are not free.
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BREAKING: The Iowa Supreme Court today blocked a 6-week abortion ban from taking effect.
This is a win for Iowans and reproductive freedom. 🎉
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“If I don’t work, my family does not eat,” said Salvador, who has four young children at home. “If the farmworkers don’t work, then the fruits and vegetables don’t arrive.”
This is why undocumented people should have access to COVID-19 testing and care.
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A person can decide that they don't want to read a certain book.
A person can decide that they don't want their child to read that book.
But a person can't decide that an entire school or entire town can't read that book.
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Some city leaders in Essex, Iowa, decided to exclude the local LGBTQ Pride group from today's Labor Day Parade because they don't support their "agenda." It's a clear violation of their free speech rights and is making news throughout the Midwest.
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🚨 ICYMI: Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law one of the most extreme, discriminatory, and unconstitutional anti-immigrant bills in the country.
Today is a sad day for Iowa.
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BREAKING: A federal district court today temporarily blocked two provisions of an Iowa law that banned some books from schools and prohibited discussion of LGBTQ+ issues.
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Good news! Bondurant and Farrar schools are reversing their wrongful decision to permanently remove 17 banned books from shelves.
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Proud to stand today with Planned Parenthood and Iowa women against Iowa's awful pending 6-week abortion ban.
#wewontgoback
#ialegis
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55 years ago today, our clients Mary Beth and John made history in Tinker v. Des Moines. They were suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
This case made it clear: The First Amendment protects public school students. But the fight isn't over.
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Iowa Attorney General Bird shouldn't deny emergency contraception and abortion services to sexual assault survivors. Period.
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What a great shirt!
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"The Kite Runner" is a story about friendship, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption.
Norwalk students will no longer be able to read it in their classrooms.
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🚨🚨🚨 Gov. Reynolds just signed into law cruel restrictions that ban children from accessing gender-affirming care and bathrooms that match their gender identity.
This is a dark day for Iowa.
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The ACLU of Iowa and Lambda Legal will continue our fight to ensure Iowa schools are safe for LGBTQ+ students.
BREAKING: Judge blocks most of an Iowa law banning some school library books and discussion of LGBTQ+ issues
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