NOW and Abortion Rights/Reproductive Issues

NOW affirms that reproductive rights are issues of life and death for women, not mere matters of choice. 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. We oppose attempts to restrict these rights through legislation, regulation or Constitutional amendment.

Related Issues: Emergency Contraception, Supreme Court, Fetal Personhood

Take Action:

• Whose Conscience Is It, Anyway?
• Expose the Lies: Protect Birth Control
• Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA):
  • Read our Q&A about FOCA
• Restore Affordable Birth Control to Low-Income and College Women
• Tell Congress: "Stop Denying Emergency Contraception to our Servicewomen"
• Repeal the Global Gag Rule

General Information:

• We Want Reproductive Justice NOW!
• NOW v. Scheidler
• Fact Sheet: Reproductive Rights Historical Highlights
• Abortion Around the World - An Overview

Latest News:

• NCIWR: HPV Vaccination Requirement Discriminates Against Immigrant Women (10/08)
• NNT: Election Could Reverse Eight Years of Damage to Reproductive Rights (09/08)
• Letter to Secretary Leavitt about proposed Provider Conscience Regulation (09/08)
• Whose Conscience Is It, Anyway? (09/08)
• HHS Needs a News Flash: Birth Control is NOT Abortion (08/08)
• A New Front in the War on Women's Rights (05/08)
• Abstinence-Only Education Just Says No to the Truth: Teen Girls Suffer the Consequences (05/08)
• Below the Belt: ABCs, 123s, and STDs (03/08)
• Restore Affordable Birth Control to Low-Income and College Women (03/08)
• Commemorating 35 Years of Roe v. Wade (01/08)
• NOW Marks the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Reminds Continued Vigilance is Necessary (01/08)
• Men's Abortion Rights: What Will They Think of Next? (01/08)

Archive of NOW's work on abortion rights

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