NOW President Terry O’Neill calls on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to refuse to make any deals to appease Ben Nelson or the Catholic Bishops or anyone else seeking to turn the health care bill into an anti-abortion vehicle.
NOW President Terry O’Neill interviewed by Boston’s NPR reporter Monica Brady-Myerov about the Stupak-Pitts Amendment and why it’s a central issue in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate race: “The most passionate part of Wednesday night’s Senate debat…
The National Organization for Women congratulates Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley for her overwhelming victory in the Democratic primary in the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat. If Coakley prevails as expected in the Jan. 19 general election, she will be the first woman senator from the state of Massachusetts, and she will double to two the number of women in the state’s current 12-member congressional delegation. The NOW Political Action Committee proudly endorsed Coakley in her run.
One day after the Senate defeats the Nelson-Hatch Amendment, NOW President Terry O’Neill speaks with reporter Sahil Kapur for the online news website The Raw Story about the Senate version of the health care bill: “Despite the failure of the Nelson-Hatc…
NOW applauds the Senate for voting to table and effectively defeat the Nelson-Hatch Amendment to the health care reform bill. This victory is just one small step, however, toward enacting health care reform that recognizes health care as a human right, abortion as health care and women as deserving of coverage that meets all of their medical needs.
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