Blog Author Lambda Legal

Today, national advocacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Center for American Progress (CAP), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), GLAAD, Lambda Legal, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Black Justice Coalition (BJC), National Fair Housing Alliance, National Partnership for Women and Families, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), PFLAG National and the Transgender Law Center expressed strong opposition to the so-called “Fairness For All” Act, as introduced in Congress.

Today, Lambda Legal joined LGBTQ advocacy organizations in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of June Medical Services, which is challenging Louisiana’s Act 620, an unnecessary and burdensome requirement that physicians who perform abortions have admitting privileges at a local hospital, which only serves to make it harder for patients to access abortion services.