NOW In The News

Anti-Abortion Group Sends Children With Teddy Bears To Lobby Lawmakers

NOW Action Vice President Erin Matson talks about media portrayals of women in 2011 on NorthJersey.com: “It seems like Hollywood has seized the pre-feminist [leading] woman trend right now, between ‘The Playboy Club’ and the ‘Pan Am’ show, and it’s reall…

Women’s Groups Incensed Over Obama Morning-After Pill Decision

NOW Action Vice President Erin Matson is quoted in this article about President Obama’s Plan B comments: “His statements about Plan B yesterday are condescending. They’re disempowering and frankly they communicate sex discrimination. In saying that he th…

NOW: Biden’s rape claims are legitimate

NOW President Terry O’Neill comments on Vice President Joe Biden’s claims that “if the president’s American Jobs Act does not pass, then ‘rape will continue to rise.'”

Cuts in benefits, services are unfair to women

Aidan Smith for Tulane University’s New Wave: “National Organization for Women (NOW) president Terry O’Neill reflected on the current economic crisis and how it impacts American women on Monday (Oct. 17) in a talk on the Tulane uptown campus. In an open…

Women Recovering From Recession At Significantly Slower Pace Than Men, New Study Shows

NOW President Terry O’Neill is quoted in this article about women and the economy: “We don’t have a deficit crisis in this country. And anyone who says we do has a political axe to grind and is not telling the truth to the American people. We have a defi…