Health - National Organization for Women

NOW to Rally in Pitts’ Pennsylvania District to Denounce Stupak-Pitts Amendment

Posted on November 17, 2009 By rachelsg

Once again, women’s reproductive rights are under attack in this country. Anti-choice legislators are using health care reform as an opportunity to further restrict women’s access to abortion. One such plunderer is Pennsylvania Representative Joseph Pitts, who co-authored an amendment to deny millions of women abortion coverage, and then when the Stupak-Pitts Amendment passed, Pitts voted against the main bill anyway.

NOW Urges the Obama Administration to Prosecute Roeder Under Domestic Terrorism

Posted on November 9, 2009 By rachelsg

The Associated Press reports that Scott Roeder has confessed to shooting late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in May at a Wichita church. Roeder told AP he intends to use the so-called necessity defense at his trial — arguing he was protecting unborn children. “The absurdity of his defense is insulting and dangerous to women, but it also reveals his terrorist methodology using murder to accomplish his political goals,” says NOW President Terry O’Neill.

NOW Opposes Health Care Bill That Strips Millions of Women of Abortion Access, Says Bill Obliterates Women’s Fundamental Right to Choose

Posted on November 8, 2009 By rachelsg

The House of Representatives has dealt the worst blow to women’s fundamental right to self-determination in order to buy a few votes for reform of the profit-driven health insurance industry. We cannot and will not support a health care bill that strips millions of women of their existing access to abortion.

Terry O’Neill: Women and Health Care

Posted on November 5, 2009 By now_admin

Read NOW President Terry O’Neill opinion for the Washington Post on women and health care: “Women are providing more health-care services, unpaid, to their family members and receiving fewer health-care services themselves under the current system. A ne…

Single Payer Isn’t Socialist, It Just Doesn’t Make Cents

Posted on October 28, 2009 By National Organization for Women

Health care is a human right. Nobody should be without it; not in this country, not anywhere.

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