It’s now been a year since the Supreme Court’s shameful decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and states across the country have moved to enforce abortion bans – stripping millions of people of their right to decide if, and when, to start a family. 

As politicians continue to attack our bodily autonomy nationwide, we need federal safeguards more than ever.

We need Congress to act.

The House has already re-introduced a bill to affirm the right for healthcare workers to provide birth control and for people to use it. But more protections are needed to defend reproductive freedom across the board, especially abortion access.

 Please, send a message to Congress now and urge them to support legislation that safeguards the right to access abortion and all reproductive health care nationwide.

Go to their website and sign the Petition

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Three months after a state jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers on nearly all charges in the beating of Rodney G. King, a verdict that set off deadly riots, a Federal grand jury here has indicted the same four men on Federal charges of violating Mr. King’s civil rights.

The indictment, returned Tuesday afternoon and unsealed today, charges the three officers who beat Mr. King during an arrest in March 1991 with violating his Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable arrest. It charges their sergeant with depriving Mr. King of his 14th Amendment due-process rights for failing to restrain the officers. King Could Testify

In announcing the indictments, Lourdes G. Baird, the United States Attorney here, hinted that other police officers at the scene may yet be charged under Federal laws. “The investigation is still open,” she said. “I cannot comment on what charges we might be looking at or what witnesses we might be looking at.”

Mr. King is willing to testify in Federal court, and probably will do so, said Steven A. Lerman, the lawyer who represents him in a pending lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles. “I am confident that Rodney King will testify,” he said. “I think that is a foregone certainty.” A Volatile Case

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A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 6, 1992, Section A, Page 1 of the National edition with the headline: U.S. Jury Indicts 4 Police Officers In King Beating. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

On August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan begins firing 11,359 air-traffic controllers striking in violation of his order for them to return to work. The executive action, regarded as extreme by many, significantly slowed air travel for months. Two days earlier, on August 3, …read more

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Apartheid opponent Nelson Mandela was arrested by security police in South Africa. He was then tried and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1964, he was placed on trial for sabotage, high treason and conspiracy to overthrow the government and was sentenced to life in prison.

A worldwide campaign to free him began in the 1980s and resulted in his release on February 11, 1990, at age 71 after 27 years in prison. In 1993, Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize with South Africa’s President F.W. de Klerk for their peaceful efforts to bring a nonracial democracy to South Africa.

In April 1994, black South Africans voted for the first time in an election that brought Mandela the presidency of South Africa.

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