Last year I worked with a local political action committee (PAC) to help diversify their organization in the New York Capital Region. A group of older white women had started the PAC after the 2016 presidential election when many women felt let down and upset by the election results. This PAC’s local organizing opened a Read more …
Statement by National NOW President Christian F. Nunes About Texas Abortion Pill Ruling WASHINGTON–Today’s ruling on medication abortion by Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk could bring down another grim curtain on the bodily autonomy and reproductive health care rights of women. Judge Kacsmaryk, a lifelong right-wing activist who was hand-picked by Donald Trump to advance an Read more …
THE ISSUE In less than two weeks, there could well be no access to one of the safest methods of abortion available, medication abortion, now used in a majority of abortions in the U.S. – and widely used around the world. An anti-abortion organization, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, filed a lawsuit in November demanding that Read more …
Statement by National NOW President Christian F. Nunes The fight is on to save medication abortion. The time is now. A lawsuit in Texas, heard before one of the most conservative judges ever appointed by Donald Trump, could lead to an immediate ban on a key drug used in medication abortions—the method used in more Read more …
NOW members are outraged by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that struck down 30 years of legal safeguards that kept those under a protective order for domestic violence from owning firearms.
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Title IX is a civil rights law adopted under the Education Amendments in 1972. It protects people from being discriminated against on the basis of sex in education programs and activities receiving federal assistance. Discrimination can be harassment, sexual assaults, and denial of educational resources. Title IX applies to not only educational attainment but also access to Read more …
January 10, 2023 Women voters turned out in record numbers in November 2022 midterm elections, securing an impressive number of congressional and gubernatorial seats and achieving a few important ‘firsts.’ Many were ushered into office by the strong turnout of Democrats and women voters in reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Read more …
Equal Education and Title IX NOW was one of the chief advocates for passage of the Title IX of the Education Act Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination by any educational institution that receives federal funding. This important civil rights law assures that equal opportunity is to be provided for women and men, boys and girls, in Read more …
June 15, 2022 Time flies, it seems. We are already at the half-century mark of Title IX, the landmark civil rights law that advances equal educational opportunity for students attending schools and programs that receive federal financial aid. Title IX, a provision of the Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1972, has opened millions Read more …