About NOW

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States.

http://www.now.org/organization/info.html

NOW and Abortion Rights/Reproductive Issues

NOW fully supports access to safe and legal abortion, to effective birth control and emergency contraception, to reproductive health services and education for all women.

http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/index.html

Talking About Affirmative Action

Myth: Affirmative Action is "reverse discrimination" — let's stop giving special rights to certain groups while others are left out.

Fact: Affirmative Action is fair!

Affirmative Action levels the playing field so people of color and all women have the chance to compete in education and in business.

Myth: Affirmative Action = Preferences

Fact: Affirmative Action = Equal Opportunities

Affirmative Action programs merely acknowledge that hundreds of years of discrimination cannot be erased in a few decades and still hold women and people of color back.

http://www.now.org/issues/affirm/talking.html

 

Judicial Nominees Special Report: Our Courts at Risk

What's at Stake:

George W. Bush is pulling out all the stops to imprint a conservative agenda on the U.S. judicial system—and now he's got lots of help. The 109th Congress is controlled by Republicans. The crucial Judiciary Committee is now chaired by Sen. Arlen Specter, who has promised not to stand in the way of any Bush nominee. The Bush administration, accelerating its drive to nominate right-wing ideologues to all levels of the federal judiciary, has sent scores of nominations to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Senate has confirmed more than 200 of them.

http://www.now.org/issues/judicial/index.html

Press Releases

Half a Million March on Washington, D.C., to Tell Congress: Stop George Bush's War 1

NOW Marches to End War Based on Lies, Greed 2

NOW Calls for End to War in Iraq, Ready to March on Saturday 3

NOW Applauds Hillary Rodham Clinton's Candidacy for U.S. President. 4

Roe v. Wade at 34: A Pillar of Reproductive Freedom 5

NOW Celebrates "Herstory" as First Woman Speaker Nancy Pelosi is Sworn In 6

NOW Applauds New Jersey Ruling on Equal Marriage 7

NOW Celebrates Ned Lamont's Victory in Connecticut Democratic Primary 8

News Advisory: NOW President Kim Gandy to Campaign for Ned Lamont in Connecticut 9

NOW PAC Endorses Ned Lamont for U.S. Senate in Connecticut 10

Thousands From Across the Nation To March in NYC for Peace, Justice & Democracy, Including Susan Sarandon, Jonathan Demme, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cindy Sheehan 11

NOW Urges Senate Filibuster of Alito Nomination 12

Samuel Alito: Wrong Judge for U.S. Women 13

NOW Denounces Roberts Confirmation, Looks to Next Battle 14

Nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice is an Outrage to Women 15

NOW Activists Pulling Out the Stops to Stop Roberts 16

 

1 http://www.now.org/press/01-07/01-27.html
2 http://www.now.org/press/01-07/01-26.html
3 http://www.now.org/press/01-07/01-24a.html
4 http://www.now.org/press/01-07/01-22b.html
5 http://www.now.org/press/01-07/01-22.html
6 http://www.now.org/press/01-07/01-03.html
7 http://www.now.org/press/10-06/10-25.html
8 http://www.now.org/press/08-06/08-08b.html
9 http://www.now.org/press/08-06/08-08.html
10 http://www.now.org/press/05-06/05-16.html
11 http://www.now.org/issues/peace/events/nyc2006/press/042706.html
12 http://www.now.org/press/01-06/01-19.html
13 http://www.now.org/press/01-06/01-08.html
14 http://www.now.org/press/09-05/09-29.html
15 http://www.now.org/press/09-05/09-05.html
16 http://www.now.org/press/09-05/09-01.html