Nancy Keenan

President Obama spoke this morning at a forum on women and the economy. In his speech, he said, "Women are not an interest group."

Indeed, we are not. We're the majority of the electorate, and, in large part, our votes will decide the outcome of the 2012 presidential race.

Judging...

Friday marks the two-year anniversary of President Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law.

This landmark piece of legislation brings 30 million Americans into a healthcare system that includes affordable family-planning services, better access to contraception, and maternity care. It represents one of the greatest...

2011 was the year of the War on Women.

Anti-choice politicians ignored the American people's call to focus on jobs and the economy, and instead made attacking a woman's right to make personal, private medical decisions one of their "highest legislative priorities."

The U.S. House of Representatives...

In light of recent events on the presidential campaign trail, I'd like to reintroduce former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to a politician for whom attacking contraception is an all-too usual topic—his name is Mitt Romney.

Gov. Romney, who has taken a commanding lead in polls, seemed...

With the Iowa caucuses less than one month away, Americans are learning more and more about the Republicans vying to replace President Obama.

When it comes to their records on choice, one thing is clear: all of the Republican presidential candidates oppose a woman's right to choose.

In...

When I was growing up in rural Montana, the idea of a computer that could answer your questions in real, spoken English was something out of science-fiction stories.

But now, Siri, the personal-assistant application in Apple's iPhone 4S, can do just that. You can ask Siri where to find...

The following is a joint message from Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, and Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

The overwhelming majority, 98 percent, of sexually active Catholic women use a form of modern contraception.

Two-thirds of Catholics, 65 percent, believe that clinics and hospitals that...

Anti-choice extremists never take their eye off the prize: making abortion illegal in the United States.

Right now, they have their sights set on Mississippi. This Tuesday, Mississippians will go to the polls and vote on Initiative 26, a so-called "personhood" ballot measure.

Every four years it seems anti-choice presidential candidates tell voters that overturning Roe v. Wade simply means returning the question of legal abortion to the states.

We can assume that some candidates will repeat this mantra if asked about abortion in the primary season -- including Saturday's...

Did you know that 98 percent of American women use birth control during their lifetime?

Yet for many women, it's simply too expensive. One in three women has struggled with the high cost of prescription birth control.

The consequences are staggering. Young adults ages...

The U.S. Congress and many state legislatures are about half-way through their legislative sessions, and the midterm grade is not good news for women.

NARAL Pro-Choice America summarized that what we predicted following the 2010 elections has come to fruition: we face an unprecedented wave...

Today, a House Ways and Means subcommittee is holding a hearing on H.R.3, the dangerous "Stupak on Steroids" bill introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.).

Ways and Means is the third committee in the U.S. House of Representatives to hold a hearing on an anti-choice bill in...

Tomorrow marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that recognized a woman's constitutional right to choose abortion. To mark the anniversary, NARAL Pro-Choice America once again invites pro-choice bloggers and activists to join us today for Blog for Choice...

Rep. John Boehner is set to become the next speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. As Boehner prepares to take the gavel, a survey released last week shows that the vast majority of Americans has no idea who he is. We have no doubt that, before...

We are days away from marking the one-year anniversary of the Sunday morning Scott Roeder walked into Dr. George Tiller's church in Kansas and shot him at close range.

After his murder, many women and men came to our blog to express their appreciation for...

As the House of Representatives took up health-care reform legislation, anti-choice lawmakers suddenly claimed the belief that Americans' health-care decisions should be private - despite their own long, stubborn history of attempts to deny women the very same right.

Perhaps in the future they will...

I'm a big football fan, and I'm really looking forward to the Super Bowl. Spending time with family and friends, eating good food, maybe having a beer - you really can't beat it.

But this Super Bowl is going to be different.

Unfortunately, it looks like...

Today, NARAL Pro-Choice America foundation released the 19th edition of Who Decides? The Status of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States, the nation's most comprehensive report with analysis of choice-related legislation and court decisions. This report arrives as Congress continues to debate

As the health-care debate moves to the Senate, many pundits are warning the Democratic Party that the fight to keep an anti-choice amendment out of the Senate bill represents a split in the party’s big tent.

The rationale, as the pundits say, is that the Democratic congressional leadership has...

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...