Washington, D.C. – Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, congratulated Tammy Duckworth for ousting anti-choice incumbent Joe Walsh to represent Illinois’ 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. “I congratulate the Duckworth campaign for its outstanding victory,” said Keenan. “Rep.-elect Duckworth’s commitment to protecting our reproductive freedom[Read More…]

Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2012.  President Obama’s reelection is a historic victory for women’s health, driven by a substantial gender gap, Planned Parenthood said tonight. “This is a resounding victory for women. More than ever before, women’s health was a decisive issue in this election. Americans today voted to ensure[Read More…]

Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2012  NOW applauds women voters for re-electing President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, defeating some of the most extreme anti-woman tea party candidates running for the Senate, and passing marriage equality measures in Maine and Maryland. In a truly[Read More…]

Anthony D. Romero Asks Obama to Fulfill His Promise to Dismantle National Security State, Ensure Safe and Legal Abortions and Reform Immigration Policies NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2012. Now that President Obama has won another term, the head of the American Civil Liberties Union said this morning that the time had[Read More…]

Pro-choice organization recognizes 86 additional pro-choice U.S. House members Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2012. Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, this morning announced the final round of endorsements for the 2012 cycle from her organization’s political action committee. “We are proud to honor leaders who stand up for a[Read More…]

DETROIT –(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2012. NBC News left out critical information regarding Delphi employee pensions in a Nov. 4 report, failing to report that a 1999 contract, not favoritism, is what made pensions whole for some employees. All Delphi employees had their pensions terminated and put into Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation[Read More…]

Statement of NOW President and NOW/PAC Chair Terry O’Neill Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2012.  Tomorrow’s election is pivotal. We’re down to the wire, and so much is hanging in the balance for women: economic security, the fate of Roe v. Wade, protection of Medicare and Social Security, and much more. We[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2012. This week the Equal Justice Task Force of People For the American Way’s African American Ministers In Action released a statement in support of the marriage equality ballot measures in Maryland, Maine, and Washington and opposing a discriminatory marriage amendment in Minnesota. “At this moment in[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2012. Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, condemned presidential hopeful Gov. Mitt Romney for supporting yet another anti-choice Senate candidate, Rick Berg (R-ND). In 2007, Berg voted with a minority of the North Dakota state house to ban abortion entirely, including in cases of rape[Read More…]

PITTSBURGH–(ENEWSPF)–November 3, 2012.  The United Steelworkers (USW) union has joined allies from more than 50 other groups to fight back against the corporate influence in elections and against laws and official actions designed to suppress the vote. Under the banner “Money Out, Voters In,” the organizations issued a joint statement[Read More…]