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...self-righteously standing up for America, uses the Kinsey debate to hammer home the idea of abstinence-only education. In responding to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report on the dangers of abstinence-only education, the CWA said, “What could be more solidly scientific than telling a child that abstinence is the only method that is 100 percent effective in protecting from pregnancy and specific sexually transmitted diseases? Apparently the ACLU needs to hire stronger fact-checkers before cranking out inaccurate press releases.” Fact-checking lectures from the people who compared Kinsey...
Even in her later years, Davis maintained an interest in various causes. “She was always very aware of environmental groups, the ACLU and Doctors Without Borders and knew which ones were good and which were not,” recalled her son Stephen H. Davis of New York City. She also became more focused on creative writing and wrote short stories for The New Yorker. Davis published a collection of her fiction called A Dark Way to the Plaza and later a memoir entitled Great Day Coming...
...with a very light amount of due process and entirely without demonstration of probable cause bring to the surface personal details which are at best humiliating and at worst could do you long term harm. This isn’t all just theory, either: despite fervent efforts by the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Yahoo! has, for example, responded to a number of subpoena requests by corporations for the names of employees who had been criticizing company management pseudonymously on stock market discussion boards...
Crimson President Erica K. Jalli ’05 said the The Crimson plans to appeal the decision late this summer with the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...
...gives us a lot of time to prepare,” Jalli said. “I’m going to be speaking to the ACLU of Massachusetts a lot this summer so that we feel more confident going into the appeal...