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ACLU Sues Missouri City Council Over Indecent Exposure Law

The American Civil Liberties Union and a woman’s group that advocates for a woman’s right to expose her breasts in public are joining together to sue a Missouri city council over a new indecent exposure law that protesters say illegally limits the rights of free expression and maybe even breastfeeding moms.

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Planned Parenthood Sues Alabama for Cutting Medicaid Funding

With the ACLU at its side, Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit against Alabama following the state’s decision to terminate its Medicaid contract. This comes in the wake of the recent video scandal exposing the abortion provider’s practices of harvesting aborted baby body parts to sell on the open market.

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Judge: Activist Attorneys Can Inspect Four Arizona Immigrant Detention Facilities

A federal judge in Phoenix ruled to allow attorneys representing immigrant rights groups to inspect four immigrant detention facilities in Arizona where the attorneys feel immigrants were held under “inhumane and punitive” conditions on August 14. The order comes following an enormous wave of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who crossed the southwest border in the summer of 2014.

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OK Gov. Defies State Supreme Court: 10 Commandments Monument Remains

One governor is showing the way to stand up to anti-Judeo-Christian secularists assaulting Biblical values. On Tuesday, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin defied the state’s Supreme Court, asserting that the Ten Commandments monument stationed at the Capitol will remain despite the court’s ruling that it has to be removed.

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ACLU: ‘We Can No Longer Support Federal Religious Freedom Law’

The ACLU — whose stated mission was once “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States” — now states that while the organization supported the RFRA when it was passed, “we can no longer support the law in its current form” because “it is now often used as a sword to discriminate against women, gay and transgender people and others.”