League of Women Voters plant 19th Amendment garden at courthouse (News Clips) 9/25/2022 This story was originally published in The Herald-Dispatch. Members of the League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area recently established a…
LWVUS Urges the Senate to Pass the Respect for Marriage Act (Legal Document) 9/20/2022 The League signed onto a letter calling on the US Senate to pass the Respect for Marriage Act, which would ensure that all federal benefits are…
DC Reproductive Rights Depend on Statehood (Blog) 8/18/2022 This blog was written by Anne Anderson and Kathy Chiron of the LWV of DC. In August 2022, Kansans came out in droves to reject a proposed amendment…, Abortion Justice in DC In fact, Congress recently passed a budget bill that prevents DC from using locally raised taxes to help low-income…
Quiz: How Well Do You Know America's Female Democracy Icons? (Blog) 8/16/2022 You may consider yourself a history buff, but how well do you know the women who shaped our democracy? Test your knowledge and learn a thing or two…, Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman elected to state Senate, served in the state of... a. California b. Texas c. New York d. Idaho Suffragist…, In addition to being the first Latina in Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was also the first Republican to support... a. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay…
Women's Inequality Day (Article) 8/1/2022 August 26, otherwise known as Women's Equality Day, marks the anniversary of the certification of the 19th amendment, which granted some women the…, @lwvus August may be coming to an end, but the fight for women’s equality does not. #WID23 ♬ original sound - League of Women Voters , Throughout the month, 5.1k people sent letters to Congress demanding they take a stand for equality. Our CEO, Virginia Kase Solomón, discussed the…, Our Ad 35 women-run organizations in the equal and voting rights movements joined us in publishing a full-page ad in the Washington Post to…, Past Partners We're proud to have partnered with a diverse coalition of women-led organizations to promote Women's Inequality Day. Below are just a…, …
What You Need to Know About Kansas's Vote on Abortion Rights (Blog) 7/25/2022 This blog was written by Jacqueline Lightcap and Martha Pint, co-presidents of the League of Women Voters of Kansas. On Aug. 2, 2022, Kansas…, While the amendment itself is concerning enough — taking away a constitutional right is always serious business — placing it on the ballot in the…
Explaining SCOTUS's Abortion Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (Blog) 7/22/2022 On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court released its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning the…, What exactly does this mean? According to the Dobbs decision, relevant sources for gauging whether abortion is deeply rooted in history include:…, First, Justice Alito argued that the fact that early-stage abortion was not criminalized in early 1800s America does not mean that society felt women…, While Justice Alito argued that these rights are not affected by Dobbs, under the Dobbs logic, they are unlikely to be protected by the Constitution…, Yet the most important attribute shared by these opinions is the dangerous and oppressive effect they will have on countless people in this country…