House Escalates Savage Attack on Women’s Health

Today the House passed a sweeping anti-abortion rights bill that would enshrine abortion funding restrictions into law, putting women’s health and lives at risk. NOW vows to work aggressively to block passage in the Senate and applauds the White House for threatening to veto this bill.

CEDAW Hearing Encouraging, U.S. Ratification Long Overdue

NOW applauds Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) for chairing a first-ever Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday on ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Eight years have lagged since the last hearing for the human rights treaty signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.