WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Organization for Women (NOW) has called for a boycott against the state of South Carolina in the wake of the state Senate passage of legislation that would ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected. The call is jo Read more …
On the Record
NOW Celebrates Historic Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Released on January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today’s inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will long be remembered by history, and by every one of us who worked so hard for this moment. Donald Trump has spent the last four years taking a wrecking ball to policies and law Read more …
NOW Commemorates MLK Day and Reaffirms Commitment to Racial Justice
Released on January 18, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, NOW reaffirms our commitment to continue fighting for racial justice and the lives and rights of Black people across the nation. In the last year, we have seen the impacts of structural racism dominat Read more …
NOW Condemns the Unjust Execution of Lisa Montgomery
Released on January 13, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The middle-of-the-night execution of Lisa Montgomery, hastened by the rush-to-execute mandate of Donald Trump’s Justice Department, was a shock to our system of fairness, justice, and decency. In any other week, it would have been Read more …
NOW Calls for Donald Trump’s Impeachment and Conviction
Released on January 11, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump must be impeached now, and for the sake of history. He must stand in judgment before the Congress he defiled, desecrated and made into a target for insurrectionists who answered his call to be “wild” and stop the certi Read more …
NOW Celebrates Native American Heritage Month and Native Feminist Champions
Released on November 23, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C.—November marks Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the over 575 tribal communities of the United States, their cultures, and the countless contributions Native and Indigenous people have made to our society. At NOW, we Read more …
This Transgender Awareness Week NOW Calls for an End to Anti-Transgender Violence
Released on November 13, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As a national conversation around police brutality continued this year, activists brought attention to another issue impacting Black Americans and our nation as a whole — violence against the transgender community. In 2020 alone, at le Read more …
We Refuse To Go Backwards, We Must Protect Our Health Care
Released on November 10, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump packed the Supreme Court with justices he could count on to strike down the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Today, in the midst of a global pandemic when health care is needed most, we are watching to see if Amy Coney Barre Read more …
NOW Demands Justice for the 545 Separated Migrant Families
Released on October 30, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The parents of over 545 migrant children still cannot be found. Lawyers have recently blown the whistle on the fact that two-thirds of the over 1,000 migrant parents separated from their children by the Trump Administration have sinc Read more …
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Every Day, We Must Uplift Native Women’s Voices
Released on October 12, 2020
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, October 12, NOW is proud to continue to take part in the national movement to observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day and to reject the racist history of the Columbus Day observance. To continue to honor the legacy of a man who stole s Read more …