As the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, I visit congressional offices on Capitol Hill frequently -- but the trip I made today to mark the advancement of health reform was different.

We jammed inside a room at the Capitol Visitor Center. Health-care workers (doctors, nurses, and other professionals) and patients...

(This post originially ran on NPR.)

What will happen to the women?

This central question haunted me Tuesday when I heard that Women's Health Care Services, Inc., where Dr. George Tiller provided care to women for more than 30 years, would close permanently.

I can't imagine the...

Wednesday, April 29 marks the 100th day of President Barack Obama's administration.

As the political leader of the pro-choice movement, NARAL Pro-Choice America will mark this milestone as yet another reminder of how electing leaders who support the fundamental American values of freedom and privacy...

The blogosphere is abuzz with stories of GOP obstructionism of some of President Obama's nominees to crucial posts. Random and ridiculous reasons have been given for various nominees... and they even used the "f" word: Filibuster.

The use of "filibuster" when referring to any of these highly qualified nominees...

NARAL Pro-Choice America--in partnership with NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia--issued a nationwide activist alert calling on Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, who also serves as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to veto legislation that would funnel thousands of dollars to fake clinics that discourage women from choosing legal abortion....

Well, it's official. The Obama administration has published a formal notice announcing its intention to repeal the Federal Refusal Rule, or what some anti-choice groups claim is a "conscience clause."

This rule, put in place in the closing days of the Bush administration, could allow insurance companies to...

On Tuesday, January 6, the 111th Congress begins and pro-choice Americans have 26 new reasons to celebrate.

This new Congress includes 21 new fully pro-choice members in the House and five new seats the Senate - a net gain of 26 pro-choice members from the 110th Congress. These new...

It is no secret that the 2008 election cycle demonstrated that technology is giving people, especially younger voters, more power to make a difference in ways we couldn't have even imagined just a few years ago.

Specifically, the influential group of voters under age 26 is the most...

Last night, while standing just a few feet from the podium from which our next pro-choice president spoke, I was overcome with pride and emotion. Would it have been possible to react in any other way? I was so proud of what pro-choice America did to make this historic moment...

Do you hear that?

It's the sound of even more women voters in swing states like Colorado, New Hampshire, and Virginia moving to Sen. Barack Obama after John McCain's response to questions regarding a woman's right to choose in last night's debate.

McCain reiterated his call to overturn Roe...

I am pleased to announce that today, NARAL Pro-Choice America's political action committee endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.
I know that most of you are probably thinking, "Why did you decide to endorse Obama, and why are you doing it now?"

Sen. Obama has been...

It was a late night last night for the U.S. Senate. In the past, when anti-choice politicians controlled the process, that would have meant something dreadful would have happened to women's freedom and privacy.

Previous Congresses were famous for votes at 3 a.m., hoping their shenanigans would go unreported...

NARAL Pro-Choice America's PAC endorsed Congressman Al Wynn (MD-04) because of his solid commitment to protecting and defending a woman's right to choose.

We are pleased that Donna Edwards is also pro-choice and thank her for her support of a woman's right to choose and her work on behalf...

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is getting desperate and, as the saying goes, desperate times call for desperate measures. Perhaps that is why he is throwing out the rulebook and bypassing the Senate's routine process to push a vote on the so-called "Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act" (CIANA).

Frist's...

In the late 1980s, while serving as the Montana State Superintendent of Schools, I was caught in a firestorm of public scrutiny over my religious beliefs and my pro-choice values. After speaking at a pro-choice rally, Bishop Eldon Curtiss, of the Catholic Diocese of Helena, called only the two female...