Statement by National NOW President Christian F. Nunes WASHINGTON–A ruling from the most conservative federal appeals court in the U.S. has allowed the abortion pill mifepristone to remain available, but with severe restrictions that continue the attacks being waged on women’s bodily autonomy. This dangerous overreach by ultra-conservative judges is based not on science, medicine, Read more …
The National Organization for Women called the ruling “another grim curtain on the bodily autonomy and reproductive health care rights of women”.
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 …
Statement by NOW President Christian F. Nunes on Anti-Abortion Bills WASHINGTON–Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the new right-wing majority in the House put an all-out attack on abortion rights at the very top of their agenda, making it clear that a national abortion ban remains their goal. They fast-tracked just seven bills to cement their extremist Read more …
Call Your Representative: Two Abortion Bills Set for Wednesday Vote. We have received word that two of three reproductive rights bills are included in a package of legislation that House Republicans plan to bring to the floor as soon as Wednesday, January 11.
THE ISSUE We have received word that two of three reproductive rights bills are included in a package of legislation that House Republicans plan to bring to the floor as soon as Wednesday, January 11. Reportedly, the first bill is the Born-Alive Survivor Protection Act of 2021, sponsored in the previous Congress by Rep. Ann Read more …
Abortion rights prevailed across the country in the midterms – The Boston Globe