WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 7, a bill designed to take away abortion health coverage from millions of women. If the bill were to become law, it could cause the entire insurance market to drop abortion coverage. “By passing a mean-spirited bill that[Read More…]
Opinion
Grand Theft Global: New Report Reveals Leading-edge Tactic to Prosecute Trafficking Kingpins, Armed Groups for War Crime of Pillage
Violent Groups Earning Millions from Theft in War, Getting Away with It Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. From the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to Al-Shabaab, violent armed groups are generating hundreds of millions of dollars and financing their activities through illicit[Read More…]
Center for Reproductive Rights: War On Women Is Over, If You Want It
In honor of 42nd anniversary of historic Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, Center launches campaign inspired by Yoko Ono’s iconic “War is Over” campaign Washington, DC–(ENEWSPSF)–January 22, 2015. On the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the historic decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that recognized a woman’s[Read More…]
SEIU’s Henry: Struggling Low Wage Workers Welcome President Obama’s Plan to Expand Quality Child Care
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. In response to President Obama’s announcement of a proposal to increase investment in child care, SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement: “President Obama’s announcement today of plans to expand block grants to support child care for low-wage workers, and his proposal to enlarge[Read More…]
New Bipartisan Poll: Americans Embrace Climate Action, Clean Energy & Health Protections
Majorities in Maine, New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida and Colorado back an agenda of clean water, clean air, health safeguards and action on climate change WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015 – With President Obama and the new GOP-controlled Congress facing showdowns over climate change, and health and environmental safeguards, new public opinion research[Read More…]
NARAL Pro-Choice America: Switching From One Bad Abortion Ban Bill To Another Will Not Solve The GOP’s Political Problem
New Bill Would Impose Small Business Tax and Codify Current Abortion Ban Laws Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2015. Statement from Ilyse Hogue, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, on today’s action in the House: “The Tea Party-led Congress is desperately trying to save face after being forced to abandon their abortion ban[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Supreme Court Arguments in Fair Housing Act Case
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–January 21, 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a case examining whether housing policies that have a disproportionate discriminatory impact on racial minorities, women, and other groups violate the anti-discrimination provision of the federal Fair Housing Act. The law, passed in 1968, prohibits discrimination in[Read More…]
Center for Biological Diversity’s Statement on President Obama’s State of the Union Address, Jan. 20, 2015
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2015. Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, released the following statement ahead of President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight. “Following 2014’s record-breaking heat, President Obama faces some of the most consequential choices any president has ever made in the fight against global[Read More…]
State of the Union: President Obama’s Trade Deal Would Undercut Income Inequality Reductions, While Doubling Down on Climate Inaction
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (ENEWSPF)—January 20, 2015. During his 2015 State of the Union Address, President Obama set forth a broad spectrum of initiatives on issues ranging from economics and education to competitiveness and the environment. Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica issued the following statement: With two years left,[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Winnie Stachelberg on President Obama’s Condemnation of Persecution of LGBT Community
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2015. Center for American Progress Executive Vice President for External Affairs, Winnie Stachelberg, issued the following statement after President Barack Obama condemned the persecution of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, community in the State of the Union address. The president’s historic inclusion of bisexual[Read More…]
