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    Vol. 40, No. 2- Civil Rights in the States

     

    Civil Rights & Constitution

    The Freedom to Marry: Politics and Law in 2014 and Beyond

    by Ari Ezra Waldman

    June 26, 2013, was “marriage day” at the Supreme Court. On that day, the Court held the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. This was one day after a different majority rejected the appeal in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the challenge to California’s Prop 8, ending that state’s five-year aberration from marriage equality.

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    50 States of Denial: States Deny Women Reproductive Rights

    by Angela Hooton, Aram Schvey

    Last summer, the Texas legislature passed HB 2, an omnibus bill attacking women’s access to safe reproductive-health services. The law encompasses a wide variety of restrictions: It unconstitutionally bans abortions after 20 weeks; it restricts access to medication abortions—safe terminations usually occurring in the first trimester; and it unfairly requires abortion facilities—which are outpatient care centers—to meet many of the standards required of hospitals while not requiring other types of outpatient care centers to meet this same standard.