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Subject: ‘Stop Terror-Financing Bill’ Sets Off Alarm Bells in Nonprofit Sector
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Emboldened by the election results, antiabortion groups are planning aggressive new moves to end the procedure nationwide. Among their priorities is stopping the flow of abortion pills by reviving enforcement of the 19th-century Comstock Act, outlawing the shipment of any materials used for abortions. They also want to challenge laws in states where the procedure is legal that protect abortion-pill providers from out-of-state prosecutions. In Texas, a lawmaker has proposed allowing private citizens to sue internet-service providers that host abortion-pill websites, and Texas Right to Life is seeking men whose partners have had abortions to act as plaintiffs against the abortion providers in an effort to clarify an existing state law. (Washington Post)
Long a dream of many of Los Angeles’s working-class residents, tenant ownership is getting a significant boost, thanks to a pot of nearly $440 million raised from the city’s new “mansion tax.” Nonprofits, labor unions, and tenants groups have long worked in the margins, buying and converting small projects into “social housing.” Approaches differ, but all projects are meant to give tenants ownership, whether of their own units or shares in the building, and management responsibilities. Potential profits from any sales are capped, in order to keep the buildings affordable to new tenants. (Los Angeles Times)
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