Terry O'Neill

For decades, the radical right has been chipping away at women's access to reproductive health care. After the 2010 elections, these attacks escalated into an outright War on Women. Now, the Republican presidential primaries are offering a disturbing glimpse into the supposed conservative vision for this country. In this right-wing...

Despite President Obama's accommodating move last week, conservative leaders are hurtling along in their attempt to restrict birth control. They've gained a righteous head of steam so quickly they don't seem to care that they're about to careen off the tracks.

They're not backing down despite polling that shows...

As the president of NOW, I hear from a lot of women (and men). Many of them are outraged right now, and they're asking the same question: Can this be real -- is the White House actually caving in to the radical right on birth control?

At this moment, the...

Just about one hundred years ago, the "Bread and Roses" strike took place in Lawrence, Mass., led by immigrant women mill workers. The "bread and roses" slogan came from James Oppenheim's poem of the same name. Like the women in the poem, the Lawrence strikers were demanding not...

Last week, leaders of the women's rights movement sent a letter to the president and vice president asking for a meeting to talk about the impact of the current economic crisis, joblessness, budget balancing and debt reduction on women. Women leaders and economic experts were noticeably absent from...

It's hard to turn on your TV, open the newspaper or surf the web these days without being reminded that violence against women is a serious problem.

Just last week, women volunteers who served in the Peace Corps testified on Capitol Hill about how the U.S. government...

It takes resolute determination and abiding faith in our democracy to put yourself on the line, day in and day out, because you believe in public service. These are some of the qualities I most admire about former Ambassador and U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun.

The National...

Yesterday morning, while John Boehner was leading the House of Representatives in what David Corn called the "weaponizing" of the Constitution, I stood in front of the Capitol with Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NJ), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) and other leaders of women's...

Today people vote in one of the most pivotal elections ever for women's rights. We are faced with the very real possibility of taking a major step toward losing one of our hardest won and most dearly held rights: the right to a safe, legal and affordable abortion. At least...

Today, October 20, is NOW's Love Your Body Day.

Since 1998, the National Organization for Women (NOW), the NOW Foundation and NOW chapters around the country have organized events in local communities, on college campuses and in schools to demand change. To the fashion, beauty, diet and...

After Alan Simpson, the co-chair of President Obama's deficit commission, insulted those who depend on Social Security -- many of them older women, children and people with disabilities -- by referring to the program as "a milk cow with 310 million tits," the National Organization for Women came...

Since the publication of Alan Simpson's now infamous categorization of Social Security as "a milk cow with 310 million tits," calls for his resignation or firing by President Obama have spread like wildfire. I agree that Simpson should go -- but that's the easy part. The real elephant in the...