Press Releases

Conservatives Continue to Find Avenues to Restrict Women’s Bodily Autonomy by Offering Amendment to NDAA to Ban Service Members Access to Abortion

Released on June 13, 2024

Statement by National NOW President Christian F. Nunes  WASHINGTON, D.C. — National NOW President Christian F. Nunes issued the following statement in advance of the expected U.S. House of Representatives vote on an amendment to the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act that would ban the Pentagon from paying for women servicemembers’ abortions:  “Here we go Read more …

SCOTUS Upholds Medication Abortion – But This Fight Isn’t Over  

Released on June 13, 2024

Statement by National NOW President Christian F. Nunes  WASHINGTON, D.C. — National NOW President Christian F. Nunes issued the following statement in response to this morning’s U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling on the challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation of mifepristone   “Today’s SCOTUS decision rejecting the challenge to the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone Read more …

Republicans Continue their Assault on Women’s Reproductive Freedom by Refusing to Protect the Basic Right to Contraception

Released on June 5, 2024

Statement by National NOW President Christian F. Nunes    WASHINGTON, DC— Christian F. Nunes, National President, the National Organization for Women (NOW), issued the following statement regarding the Right to Contraception Act:  “The U.S. Senate could have taken the simple step to protect the right to contraception—something that’s supported by wide majorities in both parties. But Read more …

NOW Celebrates Pride Month

Released on June 1, 2024

June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate LGBTQIA+ communities and honor the significant victories since the historic Stonewall Uprising in June 1969.  Six days of protest after a police raid of a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York marked a major turning point in the visibility of the modern Read more …