Kansas

"There Is Almost No Voter Fraud in America."

"I hope for four, or five. It could be 10,000," he said. "It's a shot in the dark." — Tennessee State Elections Coordinator Mark Goins, when asked how many noncitizens may be registered to vote in his state. The New York T...

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Think You’re Covered? Think Again.

This post is part of Mom's Rising's Blog Carnival on women's health and economic rights, held this week to commemorate the anniversaries of the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment and the 1963 March on Washington. If you were faced with the decis...

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Think You’re Covered? Think Again.

This post is part of Mom's Rising's Blog Carnival on women's health and economic rights, held this week to commemorate the anniversaries of the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment and the 1963 March on Washington. If you were faced with the decis...

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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. Withover 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the highest it's ever been in U.S. history. And yet, our criminal justice system has fai...

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Unintended Pregnancies Are Not the Same as Flat Tires

Yesterday the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri brought a challenge against my home state's ban on comprehensive insurance coverage of abortion. The case was brought on behalf of the ACLU's members who are losing their abortion coverage as a res...

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Drawing a Line in the Sand: Stopping Politicians from Taking Away Insurance Coverage for Abortion Care

Today the ACLU and the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri filed a case challenging a Kansas law that prohibits insurance companies from providing abortion coverage in their comprehensive plans. Since 2010, 13 states have passed laws prohibiting s...

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