Millennials: Don’t Get Shafted at the Polls!

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WEEKLY ROUND-UP | October 3, 2014

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ELECTIONS
	Millennials: Don’t Get Shafted at the Polls! With midterm elections approaching, efforts to suppress the vote of millennials will only increase. By passing laws designed to cut young people, women and minorities off at the polls, Republican leaders are rendering a vast swath of the population invisible...Read More
NATIONAL
	NEWSFLASH: All But 7 Texas Abortion Clinics to Shutter Since only seven clinics in the state meet the new requirement, the rest will be forced to shutter. According to the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), nearly 1 million women in the state will now have to travel 300 miles or more to get to an abortion clinic....Read More
	The Nation’s Police Have a Sex-Discrimination Problem So, to really get at the problem of police excessive force, the Department of Justice must also, as it examines the impact of racial bias, look at how increasing the numbers of women in policing holds the key to substantially decreasing police violence while also improving police relations with the community...Read More
GLOBAL
	Iraqi Human Rights Activist Executed Human rights activist and lawyer Sameera Salih Ali al-Nuaimy was executed by the extremists of the Islamic State. Her crime? She posted criticism on Facebook about ISIS bombing and destroying mosques and shrines throughout the city...Read More
HEALTH
	Surprise! Abortion Restrictions Are Bad for Women I’m sorry to take the wind from your sails, folks, but a new report from the Center for Reproductive Rights and Ibis Reproductive Health proves once and for all that abortion restrictions are bad for women...Read More

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