10 States With the Most Shocking Anti-Woman Legislation

Amanda Marcotee writes on AlterNet: “If you feel like the swirl of outrageous state-based anti-woman legislation is worse than it’s ever been, you’re not hallucinating. Republicans really have declared a surge in their war on women, and it’s a nationwide…

Terry O’Neill on Rachel Maddow Show

NOW President Terry O’Neill appears on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show (April 14) to discuss anti-abortion state legislation that poses a potential threat to Roe v. Wade.

Behind the Abortion War

Gail Collins writes in The New York Times: “For eons now, people have been wondering why the two sides can’t just join hands and agree to work together to reduce the number of abortions by expanding the availability of family-planning services and contra…

Equal Pay is NOT JUST a Women’s Issue – It’s Everyone’s Issue and the Lack of It Affects our Health

Happy Equal Pay Day! What is Equal Pay Day you might ask? Equal Pay Day is a public awareness event which symbolizes how far into 2011 women must work to be paid what men were paid in 2010. So today, April 12, 2011, after 75 extra days of waged work, the average working woman has finally been paid as much as the average working man received last year. Woo Hoo!

Insurance Bans on Abortion Go for the Jugular

Carlton W. Veazey, president of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, writes on The Huffington Post: “An unprecedented drive to ban insurance coverage of abortion has been gaining momentum since the health care law was signed a year ago, yet v…