Press Releases

NOW Delivers 1,500 “Tits for an Ass” to Alan Simpson

Released on September 28, 2010

NOW members have spoken loud and clear: they want Fiscal Commission Co-Chair Alan Simpson out — and NOW President Terry O’Neill is ready to send him home with 1,500 baby bottle tops. On Wednesday, Sept. 29, at the next meeting of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, O’Neill will hand deliver nearly 1,500 baby bottle tops from NOW members as part of its “Tits for an Ass” campaign calling for the removal of Alan Simpson.

NOW Condemns Senate Failure to Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Released on September 22, 2010

The National Organization for Women condemns the Senate’s failure yesterday to repeal the U.S. military’s discriminatory Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy. This policy, which bars lesbians and gay men from serving openly in the military, has resulted in the unjust discharge of more than 14,000 service members.

Women’s Equality Day: Time for Constitutional Guarantee of Women’s Rights

Released on August 26, 2010

90 years ago today women were given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was signed into law. However, women are still denied the one thing that would make us truly equal to men — equal protection of the law, which all men receive thanks to the 14th Amendment.