EXCLUSIVE: NOW President Calls On Washington Post to Drop George Will Over Rape Column

Joe Strupp writes for Media Matters for America: “The National Organization for Women is urging The Washington Post to drop George Will’s column after he downplayed the prevalence of campus sexual assault and suggested some college efforts to curb it ‘make victimhood a coveted status.'”

Karen DeCrow, former NOW president, honored by Rep. Dan Maffei in House speech (video)

Mark Weiner writes for Syracuse.com: “U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei delivered a speech on the House floor Tuesday honoring the life of Karen DeCrow, a national women’s rights leader from Syracuse who died Friday in Jamesville.”

NOW president promotes Women’s Equality Agenda

Terry O’Neill visited New York last Thursday to push the state legislature in Albany to pass Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed ten-point Women’s Equality Act, which hopes to end gender-based discrimination.

How the #YesAllWomen Hashtag Began

Terry O’Neill is quoted in this piece on #YesAllWomen and Twitter’s response to the Isla Vista murders.

‘Freedom of ’ and ‘Freedom from’

Patricia Miller writes in Conscience: “Today there are two movements claiming to champion religious liberty in the United States. Both the groups defending authentic religious liberty, and those fighting for a distorted version, have been facing off in courts, state houses and opinion pages across the United States.”