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ACLU Awards 2020
The mission of the ACLU is to safeguard and defend the basic human and civil rights of all Americans. That includes women.
With the Sam Belfer Award, the Peoria chapter of the ACLU recognizes two medical students at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria who are committed to preserving reproductive choice –– a basic human right that is being effectively denied to huge numbers of women.
It may surprise you to know medical schools across the country and around the world have inadequate curriculum in abortion training –– therefore effectively limiting women’s access to reproductive choice.
It won’t matter what the U.S. Supreme Court decides about Roe v. Wade –– if there are no healthcare providers trained in abortion, there will be no reproductive choice, says Lois Backus, executive director of the international organization Medical Students for Choice.
Two students at UICOMP campus understand this injustice. They formed a chapter of Medical Students for Choice, they raise money so students can attend the organization’s annual conference and training in Philadelphia, and they meet with school administrators here in Peoria and in Chicago to advocate for expanding the curriculum.
We can support them with donations to their not-for-profit organization and with honoring them for their advocacy and courage.
Peoria ACLU is proud to give the 2020 Sam Belfer Award to Brittani Steinberg and Andy Banks.