Chicago Parent: Local Pediatrician Brings Doctors Across the Country Together to Take on Gun Safety
The Lurie Children's Hospital pediatrician has drafted a petition to recruit physicians on public health crisis.
By Lori Orlinsky November 10, 2022
“While still processing the traumatic events that occurred just days earlier in her hometown, Lieberman traveled to D.C. in July with the nonprofit group March Fourth. Together, they met with senators, shared their stories and helped to pass H.R. 1808, a federal ban on assault weapons. But that’s only half the battle. The bill, currently in the Senate called S.736, requires the support of at all 50 Democrats and at least 10 Republicans to defeat a guaranteed filibuster.
Following her trip to D.C., Lieberman created a medical outreach division of March Fourth and helped draft a petition to recruit and empower physicians across the country in engaging with their senators to demand the federal assault weapons ban. As of press time, the petition had received more than 1,300 signatures.”