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AZ abortion law affects Asian Americans

December 17, 2015 By Jason Cruz

By Jason Cruz Northwest Asian Weekly The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied an effort to revive a lawsuit challenging an Arizona state law banning abortions based on the race or sex of the child. The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum and the NAACP’s Maricopa County branch sought to oppose the law which is […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, ACLU, API, AZ, African American, Asian Americans, China, Circuit Court, Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, India, Jason Cruz, Maricopa County, Miriam Yeung, NAACP, National Asian Pacific American Women, Representative Steve Montenegro, Vol 34 No 52 | December 19 - December 25

100 women, 100 miles

October 5, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

We Belong Together is a campaign of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, with the participation of women’s organizations, immigrant rights groups, children, and families across the country. 100 women are walking 100 miles, starting from a detention center in PA to the Nation’s capitol in Washington DC, […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, National Asian Pacific American Women, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Vol 34 No 41 | October 3 - October 9, Washington DC

New proposed bill would ban abortions based on sex or race

December 17, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By David Crary The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The practice of sex-selection abortion, usually targeting a female fetus due to parental preference for a son, has few defenders in the United States. Yet a proposed federal ban is drawing vehement opposition from liberal advocacy groups who call it a veiled attempt to undermine […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2008, 2011, Asian Indian, Chinese, Columbia University, Democratic-led Senate, Disease Control, House Judiciary, Korean, Miriam Yeung, Nancy Keenan, National Asian Pacific American Women, Republican-controlled House, Steven Mosher, United States, Vol 30 No 51 | December 17 - December 23, women of color

14th Amendment-bashing may harm immigrant communities

June 25, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jonah Most New America Media There is little chance that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution will be repealed — but that’s not the point, according to law experts.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2011, Alan Jenkins, Asian Americans, Chinese, Dred Scott Supreme Court, Georgia, Herman Cain, Juhu Thukral, Latino Decisions, Miriam Yeung, National Asian Pacific American Women, New America Media, United States, Vol 30 No 26 | June 25 - July 1, Yuki Lin, attention, letter

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