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VICII: Roe v. Wade Is Gone Now - What is next for the women and girls of our nation? 07/13/2022

From VICII:

June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade. In 1973 the Court decided that the 14th Amendment declaring all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States these born women and girls are therefore entitled to the equal protection of the law and the Constitution. Roe insured that women and girls were guaranteed the same rights as men to make medical decisions in privacy with their doctors and families or in the privacy of their own conscience without the interference of the State, the politicians, family, or church. The Roe decision stated that as moral agents women were to be trusted to make important decisions about their pregnancies, their families, their futures and their destinies on their own.

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VICII: PART 1 - Roe v. Wade is Gone Now - What Is Next for the Women and Girls of Our Nation? 06/29/2022

From VICII:

On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade. When decided in 1973, the Court decided that the 14th Amendment declaring all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States, these born women and girls are therefore entitled to the equal protection of the law and the Constitution. Roe insured that women and girls were guaranteed the same rights as men to make medical decisions in privacy with their doctors and families or in the privacy of their own conscience without the interference of the State, the politicians, family, or church. The Roe decision stated that as moral agents women were to be trusted to make important decisions about their pregnancies, their families, their futures and their destinies on their own.

Join the Vermont Institute of Community and International Involvement as Kurt Mehta, Esq.; Sandy Baird, Esq.; and Justine Snow, Esq. discuss this new reality.

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Bans Off Our Bodies Rally - Response to the Overturning of Roe v. Wade 06/24/2022

Protesters gather at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Burlington to protest the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe V. Wade. 

What's Going On?: Status of Roe v. Wade 05/10/2022

Sandy Baird speaks with Eric Agnero about the status of Roe v. Wade after leaked Supreme Court documents suggest is may be overturned.

VICII: Roe v. Wade - A Victory for Women and Girls 02/09/2022

From VICII:

"Roe v. Wade decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1973 was a victory based on the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, Roe guaranteed that "persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States and that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Under this historic amendment passed during Reconstruction after the Civil War in 1868, which guaranteed to freed formerly enslaved persons citizenship, women being born are persons and therefore citizens of the United States and the State in which they reside and are therefore entitled to have their rights to life and liberty respected and guaranteed by the State. Roe v. Wade stated that women and girls were moral agents and citizens who had the right to make their own medical decisions free of government interference.

Justine Snow, Esq., is an attorney and Public Defender in Florida. She is a graduate of Burlington College in Vermont and a graduate of Southern Coastal Law School in Florida. She is a scholar who studies the Constitution and practices law to make constitutional liberties a reality."

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Congressman Peter Welch: Abortion Rights Roundtable 09/20/2021

Rep. Peter Welch and Sen. Bernie Sanders meet with key abortion rights partners in light of the recent Supreme Court decision to allow the nation’s most restrictive abortion law in Texas to take effect. Rep. Welch discusses the House’s expected passage of H.R. 3755 (the Women’s Health Protection Act), of which Rep. Welch is a cosponsor, to enshrine access to reproductive health care into law for all women across America. The participants also discuss the status of Vermont’s Reproductive Liberty Amendment to protect access to safe and legal abortion in Vermont.

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