Today the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, the ACLU, the National Women’s Law Center and the Women’s Sports Foundation sent a letter to the National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA) urging it to change its discriminatory policy that prohibits women, like University of Michigan-Dearborn student and national wrestling champion Marina Goocher, from competing against male wrestlers when women wrestlers and women’s teams are unavailable.

CHICAGO — The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan today filed a government complaint against a Catholic health care provider that refused medically necessary treatment to a pregnant woman on religious grounds.

ACLU at the Michigan Capitol – November 16, 2015

Recently, a Catholic hospital denied permission to Jessica Mann, a pregnant Michigan woman with a life-threatening brain tumor, to have her tubes tied after she delivers her baby--despite her doctor's recommendation. As a result, a pregnant woman could be put at risk because a hospital has chosen religious belief over sound medicine. This is Jessica's story.

Jessica Mann is a woman with a life-threatening brain tumor.  In 2015, Jessica was scheduled to give birth by caesarean section delivery at Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc.  Jessica’s doctors advised her also to undergo tubal ligation/sterilization at the time of her delivery because another pregnancy would increase the risks to her posed by her tumor, as would forcing her to undergo an additional procedure after the delivery.  Tubal sterilization is the most common form of permanent birth control in the world, and it is most safely administered during a C-section. 

At the Muskegon County Jail, male guards have routinely viewed naked or partially naked female inmates while they are showering, dressing, or using the toilet; the women have been denied feminine hygiene products, so that they bleed into their clothes; and female prisoners have rarely if ever been allowed any exercise outside of their cells. 

LANSING, Mich. — As challenges to women's rights in Michigan mount, leaders from more than 30 social and professional organizations announced today that their groups have joined together to form MI Lead, a nonpartisan coalition dedicated to empowering women and ensuring gender equality statewide.

It looks like the summer of 2013 is shaping up to be just like that of 2012 – all about vagina.

Tomorrow morning, the Michigan State Board of Canvassers is holding a hearing that could be the first step towards ignoring the will of the people and forcing policy that would endanger women’s health through the legislature.

If the Board approves petition language for this extreme ballot proposal, it would mean that opponents of reproductive rights would have a shot at enacting a law that cannot be vetoed by the Governor or challenged in the courts.

When so many women of my generation believe we live in a post-feminist world, the prevalence of sex-based wage discrimination in the United States sounds like an absurdity.

Today, Equal Pay Day, serves as an important reminder that the widespread belief that gender discrimination in the modern workplace is nonexistent is far from the truth.