Full Text of HR1594 96th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The blond and statuesque Sybille Fritzsche, our | 3 | | own Nordic goddess, was an iconic role model for Lab School | 4 | | mothers during the years she graced our neighborhood; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Sybille's decision to go to law school as an adult | 6 | | while her children were young served as a different and | 7 | | possibly even finer role model for Hyde Park mothers; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, At the University of Chicago Law School she was | 9 | | one of my husband's favorite students; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Sybille's work for the Illinois chapter of the | 11 | | American Civil Liberties Union, from the late 1960s through | 12 | | 1974 broke ground in the areas of reproductive rights, | 13 | | religious liberty, free speech, gender discrimination, and | 14 | | employment law; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Sybille, barely out of law school, served as lead | 16 | | attorney in the case of Doe V. Scott, a pre-Roe v. Wade | 17 | | decision which established that the federal right to privacy | 18 | | protects a woman's right to choose abortion; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, She laid the legal groundwork for the successful | 20 | | challenge to a Chicago public college preparatory school that |
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| 1 | | initally barred women from admission and, when the ban was | 2 | | lifted, required successful women applicants to earn higher | 3 | | scores than their male counterparts; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Sybille later served with distinction as | 5 | | executive director of the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil | 6 | | Rights under the Law; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Sybille's incisive mind and extraordinary | 8 | | constitutional vision provided a strong intellectual framework | 9 | | for her legal work on behalf of women, the poor, and racial | 10 | | minorities; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Her friends and neighbors, as well as all the | 12 | | people of Illinois, were sorry to lose her charm and her | 13 | | talents when she and Hellmut moved to Arizona; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, This is the year Sybille celebrates her 80th | 15 | | birthday; therefore, be it
| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 | | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 18 | | thank Sybille Fritzsche for her tireless work on behalf of | 19 | | civil rights and civil liberties, that we send her joy on her | 20 | | birthday, and that we wish her happy days in the years ahead; | 21 | | and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Sybille Fritzsche as an expression of our profound | 3 | | respect and esteem.
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