Liberal Forum

To protect residents and visitors from the effects of right-wing repression so prevalent in the southern Illinois region, the Carbondale City Council has laid two new cornerstones in its legal infrastructure.

On July 11, in front of a packed chamber, the council and mayor received a standing ovation after enacting a bodily autonomy ordinance stating the City will respect and protect the fundamental right of individuals to make autonomous decisions about medical care.


It prohibits city employees, officers and departments from cooperating with states seeking extradition or even just providing information about out-of-state visitors seeking lawful medical treatments in Illinois.


To preempt further attacks, the council also adopted a companion ordinance which creates a legal receptacle in the city’s code for expanded protections — a new human rights title. Title 22 will house the adopted bodily autonomy ordinance and whatever additional rights the council adopts over time.

At the meeting, City Attorney Jamie Snyder characterized its preamble — which points to areas of potential rights for workers, tenants and religious worshippers as well as non-worshippers — as the council’s statement of policy, not yet imbued with legal force.

The categories of rights will have to be taken up for consideration by the council along with public input and will be enacted (or not) one by one.
Councilperson Clare Killman, a clear-eyed, 27-year-old trans woman with a helpfully wonky predisposition, took the lead in drafting the ordinances.

She modeled the bodily autonomy ordinance after Chicago’s, but told Truthout the human rights title may be an innovation because of “the amount of rights that we’re willing to enumerate as a city.” The list of rights already demarcated in the reserved chapters will likely be expanded.


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Grrrrrrrrr!

Those liberal mother **** in solid blue Carbondale cost moderate Democrats close elections in Missouri.

Next year this Democrat will square off against some MAGA bastard who wishes Pence destroyed the Constitution on January 6.




She was born a girl, has a husband, and children, and won’t pass meaningless culture war laws.

If the city fathers wanted to make a statement put a float in a Pride Parade.

They were elected to keep up the streets and put out the fires and see to it the stools flush in Carbondale.

Rant over.

good. I hope they all move there.

razoo » 27 Jul 2023, 7:10 pm » wrote: ↑

27 Jul 2023, 7:10 pm

To protect residents and visitors from the effects of right-wing repression so prevalent in the southern Illinois region, the Carbondale City Council has laid two new cornerstones in its legal infrastructure.

On July 11, in front of a packed chamber, the council and mayor received a standing ovation after enacting a bodily autonomy ordinance stating the City will respect and protect the fundamental right of individuals to make autonomous decisions about medical care.

It prohibits city employees, officers and departments from cooperating with states seeking extradition or even just providing information about out-of-state visitors seeking lawful medical treatments in Illinois.

To preempt further attacks, the council also adopted a companion ordinance which creates a legal receptacle in the city’s code for expanded protections — a new human rights title. Title 22 will house the adopted bodily autonomy ordinance and whatever additional rights the council adopts over time.

At the meeting, City Attorney Jamie Snyder characterized its preamble — which points to areas of potential rights for workers, tenants and religious worshippers as well as non-worshippers — as the council’s statement of policy, not yet imbued with legal force.

The categories of rights will have to be taken up for consideration by the council along with public input and will be enacted (or not) one by one.
Councilperson Clare Killman, a clear-eyed, 27-year-old trans woman with a helpfully wonky predisposition, took the lead in drafting the ordinances.

She modeled the bodily autonomy ordinance after Chicago’s, but told Truthout the human rights title may be an innovation because of “the amount of rights that we’re willing to enumerate as a city.” The list of rights already demarcated in the reserved chapters will likely be expanded.

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Standing ovation = good use of local government resources

razoo » 30 Jul 2023, 1:47 am » wrote: ↑

30 Jul 2023, 1:47 am

Standing ovation = good use of local government resources

There's a warm spot in hell for freaks like you.