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Illinois has now taken a historic step towards becoming the 37th state to ratify the ERA. Thirty-eight states are needed to ratify the ERA in order to amend the Constitution.

Statement of NOW President Toni Van Pelt: When Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) promised Mitch McConnell her vote on the Republican tax bill, she was promised action on legislation to stabilize the health care markets in return.

NOW’s intersectional approach to feminist advocacy asserts that women of color will not be free without a women’s movement that is both anti-sexist and anti-racist.

Statement by NOW President Toni Van Pelt: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Donald Trump announced an expanded “conscience rule,” otherwise known as a religious refusal, that will further erode the government’s role in protecting women’s health, replacing the delivery of health care with partisan, extremist politics.

In 1982, Minnesota NOW formed a Political Action Committee (PAC) to help elect feminist individuals to office. The Minnesota NOW PAC reviews and rates candidates for state and local office and may review candidates for congressional or federal offices and recommend action to the National NOW PAC.

As General Counsel to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, Wendy Vitter has a long record of extreme hostility to reproductive freedom, and now she will be able to impose that radical agenda on court decisions that will cause irreparable harm to women.

Statement by NOW President Toni Van Pelt: WASHINGTON – Every workplace should be safe from sexual harassment and abuse—but for too long, Congress has failed to protect the rights of employees to report this behavior without fear of retribution. That’s about to change.

NOW President Toni Van Pelt recently sent a blunt letter to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting Secretary Eric Hargan concerning the use of the term “life from conception” in an extensive draft plan that is to guide HHS policies for the next four years.