Date-Rape Drugs: Real Risk Or Urban Legend?

Watch NOW President Terry O’Neill on MSNBC’s Dr. Nancy Show:
Is spiking drinks with date rape drugs really happening as often as we think? British researchers think some women are simply unwilling to accept that they drank too much.

NOW Applauds Passage of Landmark Hate Crimes Legislation

In a campaign promise fulfilled, President Obama signed the first significant pro-lesbian, pro-woman, pro-disability rights legislation today. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act expands the 1969 federal hate crimes law to include sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and disability.

NOW President on President Obama’s All-Male Athletic Outings: ‘It’s Troubling’

ABC’s White House Senior Correspondent Jake Tapper blogs about NOW President Terry O’Neill’s response to President Obama’s all-male athletic outings that leave women out in the decision-making process: “We asked Terry O’Neill, the new president of the National Organization for Women, what she thought of those Democratic women and others quietly complaining about a “boy’s Read more …

Success Is in Her DNA

Liza Mundy reports for the Washington Post that “twenty-five years ago, as an exceptionally gifted graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, [the Nobel Peace Prize winner Carol] Greider, now 48, visited her lab to check an experiment, and discovered evidence of an enzyme called telomerase.”