Category: Abortion Rights/Reproductive Issues
What The Roe Anniversary Means Today
Just a few days after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President, on January 22 we also saw the 52nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Roe v. Wade, the constitutional protection of a woman’s right to abortion care. Trump took the oath of office before a Supreme Court he packed with Read more …
NOW Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The idea to establish the third Monday of January as a national holiday recognizing the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an early response to his horrific murder on April 4, 1968, outside a motel in Memphis, but it took years of campaigning and grassroots activism to overcome opposition and make it Read more …
NOW Salutes Presidential Citizens Medal Winner Eleanor Smeal
On January 2, President Biden honored former NOW President Eleanor Smeal with the Presidential Citizens Medal–the nation’s second highest civilian honors—for “defining the movement for women’s rights.” The official proclamation reads: “From leading massive protests and galvanizing women’s votes in the 1970s to steering progress for equal pay and helping the Violence Against Women Act Read more …
LGBTQ+ Youth Deserve Better: The Importance of Comprehensive Sexual Education
The sexual education system in the United States is failing LGBTQ+ youth. U.S. sexual education policies have long been influenced by moral panic surrounding sex and have been shaped by sexist and heteronormative narratives. Prejudice guiding education policy leads to sexual education that denies LGBTQ+ youth the education they deserve and contributes to severe disparities Read more …