Take Action to Keep Women’s Clinics Open

The Virginia Department of Health released the draft TRAP regulations (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) on Friday. These regulations threaten the continued availability of safe, legal first-trimester abortion in Virginia. It is clear that politics–not public health and sound science–is the driving force behind the regulations. The draft regulations require existing women’s health centers in [...]

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Women’s Equality Day? Not So Fast

Ms. magazine and HerVote have laid waste to the notion that women’s basic rights are (more or less) safe and secure. Read my summary, below, or the whole depressing thing at http://msmagazine.com/HERvotes/index.htm What can you do, right now? Join NOW (go to the box at right to do that). From Ms. magazine Top Ten Historic [...]

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Happy 19th Amendment Day

Thanks to Garrison Keillor and Madi Green for this: On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. There had been strong opposition to woman suffrage since before the Constitution was drafted in the first place; people (mostly men) believed that women should not vote [...]

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We Endorse Barbara Favola

August 17, 2011 – The Virginia NOW PAC – the political action committee of the Virginia chapter of the National Organization FOR Women –today announced its endorsement of NOW member and State Senate candidate Barbara Favola in the August 23 Democratic primary in the 31th Senate District. The VA NOW PAC commends Ms. Favola for [...]

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Virginia NOW PAC Endorses Ebbin, Garvey, Clifford, Lopez & Oleszek

August 16, 2011 – The Virginia NOW PAC – the political action committee of the Virginia chapter of the National Organization FOR Women –today announced its endorsements in the August 23 Democratic primary in the 30th Senate and 49th Delegate districts and for the Braddock Magisterial District of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. “We [...]

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Protect Access to Women’s Health Care – Red Tape Will “TRAP” Women

Know The Facts About the TRAP Act Women require access to safe, legal abortion care, but women’s health care providers in Virginia are under attack. Anti-choice lawmakers have passed a “TRAP,” or “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers,” law. This law subjects women’s health care centers to new regulations that have nothing to do with the [...]

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