Public Leadership Institute

The Lily, published by The Washington Post, ran a story which includes mention of our Playbook for Abortion Rights:

Democratic state legislators propose and pass far less abortion-related legislation than their Republican colleagues, [Aimee] Arrambide said. She joined the Public Leadership Institute, a nonpartisan policy center, in 2015 to help create “A Playbook for Abortion Rights,” a 196-page manual of model legislation that mirrored the antiabortion version published by Americans United for Life. The playbook, published in 2016, included bills designed to protect abortion clinics against acts of violence and prevent abortion clinics from having to share medically inaccurate information. Until that point, Arrambide knew of no national infrastructure that allowed legislators who supported abortion rights to share legislative ideas and borrow from one another.

Legislators in several dozen states have proposed versions of bills similar to those in the Public Leadership Institute’s manual, said Bernie Horn, senior director for policy and communications at the Public Leadership Institute.

Lawmakers are racing to mimic the Texas abortion law in their own states. They say the bills will fly through. “Copycat bills” are a tradition that has been a hallmark of the antiabortion movement for decades.

A little disagreement with George Will's essay in the Washington Post...

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GoDaddy terminates hosting of Texas anti-abortion tip website Website hosting service GoDaddy Inc on Friday terminated services for the owner of an anti-abortion website that allows people to report suspected abortions in Texas.

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Abortion Rights - Public leadership Institute Acknowledgements FORWARD: Talking About Abortion A. EXPAND ACCESS TO ABORTION Qualified Providers of Abortion Act—Allows advanced practice clinicians (APCs) – nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives and physician assistants – to perform aspiration abortions. Access to Medication Abortion...

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As Washington Stews, State Legislatures Increasingly Shape American Politics From voting rights to the culture wars, state legislatures controlled by Republicans are playing a role well beyond their own state borders.

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PA Rep. Chris Rabb on MSNBC talking about the new hiring database being established in the state to track police personnel and discipline records. This is a huge step forward for criminal justice reform.

Pa. has a new hiring database to w**d out bad cops: Will it do what it needs to do? | Pennsylvania Capital-Star Police reformers won their first Harrisburg victory in decades this week, when Gov. Tom Wolf signed a bill creating a confidential database of police personnel and discipline records.

Abortion is Health Care!

The Supreme Court Just Defied Trump on Abortion Rights Trump promised to appoint justices who would “automatically” overturn Roe v. Wade. The chief justice just made sure that won’t happen before the 2020 election.

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