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Moments with Melinda: Interview with William Ryerson 05/17/2024

From Melinda Moulton:

Bill Ryerson has more than 40 years of experience working in the field of reproductive health, including two decades of experience using the Sabido methodology of behavior chage commuications. He is the founder and President of Population Media Center and since 2008 has served as Chair and CEO of Population Institute in Washington, D. C.

For more information visit: www.populationmedia.org

Emerge Vermont: Annual Celebration of Women in Politics 2022 09/17/2022

From the organizer:

Welcoming Remarks -- Dottie Deans & Joan Lenes, Emerge Vermont Cabinet Members; Elaine Haney, Emerge Vermont Executive Director; Lauren Dees-Erickson, Democratic Nominee for Vermont House, Franklin-8 (St. Albans City)

Emerge Class of 2022 -- Introduced by Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale

Congressman Peter Welch, Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senate, Introduced by Governor Madeleine M.Kunin

Keynote Speaker Senator Becca Balint, Democratic Nominee for U.S. House, Emerge Vermont Class of 2014

Presentation of the Kunin Achievement Award -- Representative Maxine Grad, Recipient, Chair of the Vermont House Judiciary Committee, Presented by Former State Representative Helen Head

Closing Remarks-- Elaine Haney, Emerge Vermont Executive Director

Congressman Peter Welch: Reproductive Rights Roundtable 08/05/2022

From the Office of Peter Welch:

Rep. Welch joins abortion care providers from Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, UVM Medical Center, and a representative from Medical Students for Choice to learn how Vermont providers are preparing for an influx of patients from other states seeking abortion care in Vermont, following the recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The group discusses actions Congress is taking to codify reproductive rights nationwide.

VICII: Roe v. Wade Is Gone Now - What is next for the women and girls of our nation? 07/13/2022

From VICII:

June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade. In 1973 the Court decided that the 14th Amendment declaring all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States these born women and girls are therefore entitled to the equal protection of the law and the Constitution. Roe insured that women and girls were guaranteed the same rights as men to make medical decisions in privacy with their doctors and families or in the privacy of their own conscience without the interference of the State, the politicians, family, or church. The Roe decision stated that as moral agents women were to be trusted to make important decisions about their pregnancies, their families, their futures and their destinies on their own.

For more information: vicii.org

VICII: PART 1 - Roe v. Wade is Gone Now - What Is Next for the Women and Girls of Our Nation? 06/29/2022

From VICII:

On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade. When decided in 1973, the Court decided that the 14th Amendment declaring all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States, these born women and girls are therefore entitled to the equal protection of the law and the Constitution. Roe insured that women and girls were guaranteed the same rights as men to make medical decisions in privacy with their doctors and families or in the privacy of their own conscience without the interference of the State, the politicians, family, or church. The Roe decision stated that as moral agents women were to be trusted to make important decisions about their pregnancies, their families, their futures and their destinies on their own.

Join the Vermont Institute of Community and International Involvement as Kurt Mehta, Esq.; Sandy Baird, Esq.; and Justine Snow, Esq. discuss this new reality.

For more information: vicii.org

Bans Off Our Bodies Rally - Response to the Overturning of Roe v. Wade 06/24/2022

Protesters gather at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Burlington to protest the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe V. Wade. 

What's Going On?: Status of Roe v. Wade 05/10/2022

Sandy Baird speaks with Eric Agnero about the status of Roe v. Wade after leaked Supreme Court documents suggest is may be overturned.

VICII: Roe v. Wade - A Victory for Women and Girls 02/09/2022

From VICII:

"Roe v. Wade decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1973 was a victory based on the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, Roe guaranteed that "persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States and that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Under this historic amendment passed during Reconstruction after the Civil War in 1868, which guaranteed to freed formerly enslaved persons citizenship, women being born are persons and therefore citizens of the United States and the State in which they reside and are therefore entitled to have their rights to life and liberty respected and guaranteed by the State. Roe v. Wade stated that women and girls were moral agents and citizens who had the right to make their own medical decisions free of government interference.

Justine Snow, Esq., is an attorney and Public Defender in Florida. She is a graduate of Burlington College in Vermont and a graduate of Southern Coastal Law School in Florida. She is a scholar who studies the Constitution and practices law to make constitutional liberties a reality."

For more information: vicii.org

Essential at Work and Home: Women and COVID-19 09/13/2021

VCW Director Cary Brown incorporates women’s unpaid labor and caregiving roles and then addresses the pandemic's impact to women’s workforce participation, closing with policy solutions for recovery. Part of the UVM Larner College of Medicine’s Gender Equity Initiative Education Series through the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.  Other videos in this series can be found at med.uvm.edu/diversityinclusion/videos.

VICII: A Woman's Right to Health Care in Vermont & the U.S. in 2020 02/05/2020

Part of VICIIs 2nd Session of Municipalism: The New Democracy, Contemporary Issues Winter 2020. Leader of the discussion: Sandy Baird, Esq., a founder of the Vermont Women's Health Center and Jill Krowinsky, VT State Representative from Burlington.

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