Right to Dignified Care Act: Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs) often require clients to fill out unreasonably intrusive medical intake forms. The Right to Dignified Care Act prohibits a UPC from asking clients improper questions as a condition of receiving products or services.
Stop intrusive UPC intake questions: Intake forms at Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics (UPCs) are often very intrusive, asking personal questions that have nothing to do with the limited “services” they provide. For more, see the latest IdeaLog, our blog intended to raise eyebrows and engage minds.
Strict Scrutiny Podcast: The U.S. Supreme Court recently approved racial gerrymandering, is apparently about to destroy independent federal commissions, and has accepted a case to ignore the 14th Amendment and overturn a 127-year precedent on birthright citizenship. The Strict Scrutiny Podcast provides in-depth, accessible and irreverent analysis of the Supreme Court and its cases, culture and personalities.
Four-day school weeks are growing in popularity: More than 2,100 schools in 26 states use four-day weeks with longer school days. And once schools begin such a schedule, parents and students overwhelmingly want to keep it, according to Stateline.
Policies for Protecting Immigrant Communities at the State and Local Level: This discussion from the American Immigration Council provides six realistic policies that states and localities can adopt to help protect immigrants.
Sixteen model bills in our UPC Playbook: PLI published Unregulated Pregnancy Clinics: The Policy Playbook to serve as a practical resource for policymakers, advocates and community leaders. UPCs, also known as crisis pregnancy centers, operate in every state and most violate basic rules of medical supervision, fail to keep clients’ health records private, and knowingly deceive their clients.