issue: Stopping Violence Against Women

NOW Congratulates Massachusetts Primary Winner Martha Coakley, Looks Forward to Feminist Candidate Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling in January

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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.

City Trying To Make Sense of Brutal Gang Rape

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Associated Press reporter Terry Collins interviews NOW President Terry O’Neill about violence against women and the tragic gang rape of a 15-year-old Richmond, CA teen: “Some saw the crime as an outgrowth of Richmond’s street violence and poverty. But ex…

Gang Rape Survivors: It’s Not Your Fault

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San Francisco Chronicle writer Kevin Fagan interviews NOW President Terry O’Neill in this moving article about violence against women. Fagan tells the story of three women who were brutally gang raped and lived to tell about it, and the lessons they lea…

NOW Urges the Obama Administration to Prosecute Roeder Under Domestic Terrorism

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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.