[ACLU-NM] ACLU of New Mexico Hosts Forum on Faith-based Funding and Abstinence Only Education

[Kimberly Lavender]

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***MEDIA ADVISORY*** ***MEDIA ADVISORY*** ***MEDIA ADVISORY***

 

 


ACLU of New Mexico Hosts Forum on Faith-based Funding and Abstinence Only
Education


 


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Wednesday, April 27, 2005


CONTACT: 

Kimberly Lavender, Public Education Coordinator at 505-266-4622

 

ALBUQUERQUE -  At 10 a.m. on Saturday April 30th the American Civil
Liberties Union Foundation of New Mexico will host a panel discussion
entitled "Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Faith-based Funding and
the Assault on Reproductive Freedom" at the University of New Mexico Student
Union Ballroom C in Albuquerque.

 

WHAT: The meeting begins with the ACLU of New Mexico Annual Report,
delivered by Executive Director Peter Simonson.  A keynote address and panel
discussion will follow examining the implications of faith-based funding in
New Mexico for religious liberty and reproductive choice. Suggested $10
donation.

WHO: Keynote Speaker: Julie Sternberg, Attorney, National ACLU Reproductive
Freedom Project.  Her work at the Project focuses on the intersection of
religion and reproductive health issues.  She led the project's successful
lawsuit challenging the misuse of taxpayer dollars to promote religion in
abstinence-only education programs in Louisiana.

 Panelists:

Eve Espey, MD,MPH - Associate professor on faculty in the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology at UNM; specializing in the field of family
planning.

Tara Ford - Co-director of Pegasus Legal Services for Children and
Cooperating Attorney with the ACLU of New Mexico.

Andy Schultz - President and Managing Director of the Rodey Law Firm. First
Amendment Religious Freedom Law expert and Cooperating Attorney with the
ACLU of New Mexico.

Jane Wishner - President of the Southwest Women's Law Center and Cooperating
Attorney with the ACLU of New Mexico.

WHEN & WHERE: Saturday, April 30, 2005.  Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.
The program is from 10:00 a.m. to noon.  University of New Mexico Student
Union, Ballroom C.  From I-25 take the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./Central
Ave. exit. Go east on Central about a mile. Turn left into the second
entrance into UNM at the light at Stanford.

 

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Kimberly Lavender
Public Education Coordinator
ACLU of New Mexico
PO Box 80915
Albuquerque, NM 87198
aclunmpr at comcast.net
go to our website at www.aclu-nm.org <http://www.aclu-nm.org/> 
 
 
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