Health Battle Over Abortion Moves to Senate Bill

Women’s E-News’ Julia Marsh interviews NOW President Terry O’Neill about what NOW and other women’s organizations are doing to “Stop Stupak” and what we can do to rally support for a more pro-choice Senate health care reform bill: “Pro-choice activists…

Abortion Ban Must Be Stricken From Health Care Bill

Connie Schultz writes for the Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Language matters, so let’s be clear: Women’s reproductive health is not a ‘social issue.’ . . . The sooner we reject this dismissive casting of a woman’s essential right, the sooner elected officials will understand it’s not theirs for the tinkering.”

Democrats Abandon Base

Carol Moseley Braun wrote an opinion for the Chicago Tribune addressing why the anti-abortion funding provision of the House’s health care bill betrays women’s trust: “As written, the bill so eviscerates Roe vs. Wade as to practically eliminate a woman’s…

No Middle Ground Here

Lancaster Online reporter Suzanne Cassidy reports on the NOW protest against the Stupak-Pitts Amendment held in Rep. Joseph Pitts’ 16th district in Pennsylvania: “The National Organization for Women held a rally Saturday morning just down the street fro…

NOW Political Action Committee Endorses Lois Herr in Bid to Oust Pitts

The National Organization for Women Political Action Committee is proud to announce our endorsement of Lois Herr for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 16th District. Lois is taking on the all-important challenge of unseating Rep. Joe Pitts, co-author of the outrageous Stupak-Pitts Amendment. Lois rightly called this amendment “a direct attack on the freedom and privacy of American women.”