This book is about the Constitutional rights of illegitimate
children and their parents, about the right to give birth and raise
your own children regardless of race and marital status. It was
inspired by Chrystal Chambers and her lawsuit against the Omaha
Girls Club for pregnancy and race discrimination tried in l986. Ms.
Chambers' case had a role in the passage of the l991 Civil Rights
Act, Section 105 (a)(2)(a) banning the use of the business
necessity defense in cases where intentional discrimination is
alleged. It literally took an act of Congress to get the Omaha
Girls Club to abandon their single pregnancy negative role modeling
discharge policy. The case has been covered in "The Loud Voice" of
the national media. In June of 2003, Ms. Chambers and her case were
featured by national black syndicated morning radio talk show host
Tom Joyner Show in his segment "Little Known Black Heroes." In the
winter of l986, the case was featured in the New York Times, in
Newsweek, in The New York Daily News as well as locally. The case
was also featured twice on National Public Radio's 'All Things
Considered, ' and Ms. Chambers and her lawyer Mary Kay Green and
others were featured on Phil Donahue's national talk show. The book
also covers the Magdalene asylums in Ireland for unwed mothers, and
challenges the Constitutionality of the Welfare Reform Act.
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