How to support Asian and Asian American communities at home and on the road
Feb 21, 2021
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Racism against the Asian and Asian American communities in the U.S. is nothing new. But since the beginning of the pandemic, which originated in Wuhan, China, violent acts against these groups have been on the rise, fueled by hateful comments referring to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus.”
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Between March and August 2020, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council collected more than 2,500 incidents of anti-Asian discrimination from 47 states and D.C. These incidents range from shouted racial slurs to Asians and Asian Americans being barred from businesses to heinous cases of physical abuse and assault. The center receives almost 100 reports daily, with Asian American women reporting between two and three times more incidents than men.
I’ve been on the receiving end of racist harassment on three separate occasions in my Chicago neighborhood. The first time, I was out on my daily walk with my five-year-old daughter when an older white man screamed at us, “Go home and stay home you China virus!” If I had been alone, I may have been less startled, but my first instinct was to try and protect my daughter. She was confused and kept asking me what we did wrong. In my panic, I starte
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Senate panel moves bill to criminalize certain abortions
A legislative panel voted February 4 to make it a crime to terminate the pregnancy of a fetus with a genetic abnormality by declaring that it has the same legal rights as anyone else.
SB 1457 would make it a Class 3 felony for a doctor to perform an abortion knowing it is being sought because of a genetic abnormality of the fetus. That carries a presumptive prison term of 3.5 years.
The measure also would outlaw the use of telemedicine for medical abortions, precluding women from getting abortion-inducing pills through the mail. It also would require that any aborted fetus be either buried or cremated and impose new restrictions on public educational institutions from counseling or referring a woman for an abortion other than to save her life.