Women Lose Millions Due to Wage Gap, NOW Calls for Passage of Pay Equity Legislation

Released on April 24, 2007

Today the National Organization for Women and our allies are calling attention to the persistent wage gap between women and men by observing Equal Pay Day. This year we pause on April 24 — symbolizing the day that women workers finally “get out of the red” and their 2006-2007 earnings finally equal men’s earnings from last year alone.

Freedom of Choice Act is Needed More Than Ever

Released on April 19, 2007

Let this decision — which reversed a clear precedent requiring that a woman’s health be protected — be a lesson to those Senators who thought it unseemly to filibuster Sam Alito’s nomination. It is clear that this precedent, set in Roe and reaffirmed in Casey, was abandoned for no reason other than the replacement of Sandra Day O’Connor with Sam Alito.

Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Procedure Ban, “Most Political Decision Since Bush v. Gore”

Released on April 18, 2007

Not since Bush v. Gore has the Supreme Court made such a political decision, or one that so completely distorts the law and disregards the U.S. Constitution. Five justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito, both installed by Bush and a Republican-majority Senate, ruled that the law does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.