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Statement by National NOW President Kim Villanueva on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling  Restricting Access to Mifepristone  WASHINGTON–The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday severely restricted access to the abortion pill mifepristone, ruli Read more …

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month — an annual celebration of the vital contributions that Asian and Pacific Islander Americans have made to our country.  May was chosen to commemorate two historic events: the May 7, 1843 Read more …

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women.  But today, those rights are threatened by budget cuts Read more …

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is proud to stand in solidarity with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  The Trump Administration’s indictment of SPLC is a shocking abuse of power, designed by a Justice Department that has lost its way t Read more …

Black Maternal Health Week , held annually from April 11-17, is a campaign founded by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) to build awareness, activism, and community. It amplifies voices and lived experiences to advocate for the elimination of mater Read more …

Today is Equal Pay Day — a date no one wants to celebrate. It marks how many days into 2026 women must work just to match what men were paid in 2025. In 2025, the gender wage gap widened, with women earning 18.6% less than men per hour on average. But Read more …

March is Women’s History Month. Like every milestone along the timeline of women’s rights, this recognition has not come easily.  The historian Gerda Lerner, one of the founders of the academic field of women’s history, said, “When I started working on Read more …

By Kim Villanueva Our U.S. Constitution requires the President to report to Congress on “the State of the Union.”  The framers wanted to make clear that the President is no king, but rather an executive who serves alongside – and is accountable to — w Read more …

2026 marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month—but you wouldn’t know it from listening to Donald Trump. He opened his second term by attacking Black history education as “indoctrination.” His administration has dismantled Black history exhibit Read more …

January 22, 2026, marks 53 years since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, recognizing the constitutional right to privacy and guaranteeing access to abortion across the United States. But that right was stripped away in 2022, when the votes of Read more …