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January 27, 2003
"Big Brother" is No Longer a Fiction, ACLU Warns in New Report
On 30th Anniversary of Roe V. Wade, Abortion Out of Reach for Many Women
News and Action: Take Action -- Urge Congress to Stop the TIA,
Rights of the Poor
What YOU Can Do to Protect Our Freedoms
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The United States has now reached the point where a total "surveillance society" has become a realistic possibility, the ACLU warned in a new report.
"Many people still do not grasp that Big Brother surveillance is no longer the stuff of books and movies," said Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program.
The ACLU report, "Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society," is an attempt to step back from the daily march of stories about new surveillance programs and technologies and survey the bigger picture. The report itself has generated enormous media coverage and editorial support from around the country.
Read more about the ACLU's concerns about a surveillance society and the report itself.
As the nation marks 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision establishing a woman's right to reproductive freedom, safe and legal abortions are increasingly out of reach for many women.
In the three decades since the Court decided Roe v. Wade, anti-choice forces have succeeded in burdening the right with restrictions that make it harder, riskier and, in some instances, impossible for many women -- especially young and poor women -- to obtain an abortion.
This Roe anniversary comes at a critically dangerous time on the federal level as well. Anti-choice opponents are poised to push through Congress a ban on safe abortion procedures, to restrict still further teenagers' access to abortion, to elevate fetal rights and to limit states' ability to protect reproductive choice.
The ACLU reconfirms our commitment to preserving the rights and saving the health and lives of all women by mobilizing against the mounting set of restrictions that leave many women without cause for celebration on this important anniversary for reproductive choice.
To learn more, click here
Read a special statement from Louise Melling, Director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project.
 
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