Advocate says Indiana abortion law heightens importance of getting more women elected to state legislatures
“When we have more women in office, more women making these decisions, we won’t see these kinds of horrific laws.”
Category: Legislation
NOW Denounces Health Care Rule, Urges Protection for LGBTQIA+ Patients
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In yet another alarming proposed rule from the Trump-Pence administration, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks to gut portions of the Health Care Rights Law, otherwise known as Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. This was the the first law to prohibit discrimination based on sex stereotypes, gender Read more …
Abortion Right Advocates Say Nationwide Protests Were Only The Beginning
“Lawmakers need to listen to all of those grass-roots activists out in the streets yesterday, because they will most certainly be voting come November,” Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women, told Newsweek. “The fact is, the majority of voters support access to safe, legal and affordable abortion care.”
NOW Applauds House Passage of The Equality Act
Washington, D.C. — Today the U.S. House of Representatives took a stand for LGBTQIA rights by voting to provide consistent and explicit non-discrimination protections across many areas, including employment, housing, credit, education, public spaces and services, federally-funded programs and jury service. The National Organization for Women applauds the passage of The Equality Act (HR 5), Read more …
America is waging a war against women with its anti-abortion bills and it’s not pro-life or religious, it’s political
Lawmakers should not be punishing women for exercising their basic reproductive freedoms, and those who do must be voted out of office,” National Organization for Women President Toni Van Pelt