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Rhode Island high school students hold "emergency press conference" on reproductive rights
"My heart sank when I heard somebody express their joy in how the bill wasn't passed," said Audrey O'Donnell, a junior at Met High School and an intern at Planned Parenthood, who organized a youth-lead, student protest at the Rhode Islan...
Raimondo tells Boston radio listeners that choice advocates need to aim their frustration at the Senate, not the Governor's office
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo was a guest on Boston Public Radio, WGBH today, being interviewed interviewed by Margery Eagan and Jim Braude. For a few minutes the interview concerned the current battle to codify Roe v Wade into Rho...
Interfaith Coalition members ask legislators to pass legislation to prevent housing discrimination
Faith leaders called on Rhode Island legislators to end housing discrimination based on source of income yesterday. They were at the State House to advocate for bills (S0331/H5137) that would make it illegal for landlords to deny tenancy...
Nesselbush introduces Senate resolution denouncing white nationalism and neo-Nazi groups in Rhode Island
Rhode Island State Senator Donna Nesselbush (Democrat, District 15, Pawtucket) has introduced a resolution (S0829) that denounces and opposes white nationalism and neo-Nazi groups in Rhode Island. The resolution is co-sponsored by Senato...
Nearly 100 people hold noon time, pro-choice protest at Rhode Island State House
The crowd generated by a first time organizer, unaffiliated with any local reproductive rights groups, demonstrates a deep interest in protecting Roe v Wade in Rhode Island. Thousands of women across the country held protests against the...
ACLU: Cristian Aguasvivas likely to be tortured if returned to Dominican Republic
The American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Rights Project and the ACLU of Rhode Island have today filed a “friend of the court” brief in United States District Court in Rhode Island in an important immigration case in which the feder...
Lauren Niedel: Glocester considers Second Amendment Sanctuary Town status
Glocester, on Thursday, became the sixth western Rhode Island location to hold a Second Amendment Sanctuary City town council hearing. There was plenty of discussion leading up to it on the very active Glocester Facebook group and the To...
The quiet war on vaccines in the Rhode Island State house
There is a quiet war going on at the Rhode Island State House over vaccines. Currently, vaccines for children are mandatory for both public and private schools. The only exceptions are for medical and religious reasons. But bills submitt...
House Finance hears a bill to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies
While the Rhode Island State House reverberated with chants for and against abortion rights, a bill to allow Medicaid to cover the cost of doulas was quietly heard in the basement... "Not many people, I suspect, know who doulas are," sai...
Senate Judiciary Committee killed the Reproductive Health Care Act, but all hope is not lost...
Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected Senate Bill 152A Reproductive Health Care Act (RHCA) on a 5-4 vote. The RHCA is a compromise bill that takes its language from the House's recently passed Reproductive Privacy Act. The bi...