We refuse to stay silent while California Asm. Ash Kalra blocks the widely popular bill to end child marriage, a human rights abuse that destroys girls’ lives.
So does Alyssa Milano, the actress and activist who helped launch the #MeToo movement.
Alyssa and our founder/executive director Fraidy Reiss just co-authored this op-ed article for Kalra’s hometown paper, in which they blast him and the two groups that are pressuring him to block the legislation: American Civil Liberties Union of California and Planned Parenthood of California.
Unlike their affiliates in nearly every other U.S. state — and despite International Planned Parenthood Federation’s calling child marriage “one of the most persistent forms of sanctioned sexual abuse of girls” — these two California groups have taken an outrageous and passionate position in support of a harmful practice the rest of the world has vowed to eliminate by year 2030 to help achieve gender equality.
Please share the op-ed and take a minute to email Kalra to urge him to stop blocking the legislation.
