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<p><font size="4"><span style="">One of the more shocking
developments this session of the General Assembly is the way abortion
opponents  have circumvented the committee assignment process.  The
House <b>Agriculture Committee</b> now has before it three bills that are
designed to <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">eliminate meaningful access to abortion services in <span class="yiv51985356yshortcuts" id="yiv51985356lw_1299708022_0">Illinois</span>.</span></strong></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style=""><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></strong>
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<p class="yiv51985356MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As I said on our web site and
in blog posts, although the “House Agriculture Committee does a great job
dealing with livestock, women are <b>not</b> livestock!”  Please
join the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1299733299_0">ACLU</span>’s Legislative Team and our <span class="yiv51985356yshortcuts" id="yiv51985356lw_1299708022_1"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1299733299_1">Reproductive Rights Project</span></span> as
we “stampede” the House Agriculture Committee on Tuesday, March 15,
to protest this <span class="yiv51985356yshortcuts" id="yiv51985356lw_1299708022_2"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1299733299_2">inhumane treatment</span></span> of women and urge that they defeat bills
that would restrict our <span style="cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yiv51985356yshortcuts" id="yiv51985356lw_1299708022_3"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1299733299_3">reproductive rights</span></span>.  Let me know by return email
if you can join us; or, use this link:</span></font></p><p class="yiv51985356MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://action.aclu.org/livestock"><span class="yiv51985356yshortcuts" id="yiv51985356lw_1299708022_4">http://action.aclu.org/livestock</span></a> 
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<p class="yiv51985356MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">See you in Springfield!</span></font></p> 

<p><font size="4">Colleen </font></p> 

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<h3><em></em><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Colleen
K. Connell </span></h3> 

<p class="yiv51985356MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Executive
Director</span></p> 

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of Illinois</span></p> 

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