Salus populi suprema lex esto
"The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law"
Abortion Policy and the Reproductive Health of Black Women
By: Amber Wojciechowski
Roe v. Wade was a Supreme Court case in which a woman, Norma McCorvey, known in the case as "Jane Roe," filed a lawsuit against Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade. While the Supreme Court may have disagreed with McCorvey's belief that abortion should be allowed at any time during pregnancy, they still ruled in her favor as she had her right to privacy when terminating a pregnancy within a certain timeframe.
District Characteristics
By: Jaslaudi Ramírez
The 39th New York Assembly district is the most diverse in the state, housing new migrants with a multitude of languages and cultures. This affects the ways policies are formed and legislation is passed to account for the multilingual and multicultural constituents in the district. In correlation to other districts, the 39th district is small but encompasses a large population of undocumented citizens that are not accounted for in the US census, which determines district boundaries and allocation of resources. The persistent presence of the looming threat of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) impacts the district greatly, as most of its residents are unaccounted for and remain politically invisible while being the most affected. The undocumented status of many constituents leaves them vulnerable in terms of access to health care, childcare, and wage theft protection.