NOW urges Bronx voters to stop Ruben Diaz Sr.’s bid for higher office, where he has far more power to set back women’s rights and abortion access — in New York and across the country. NOW PAC is proud to endorse Melissa Mark-Viverito for the 15th Congressional District, who is a steadfast supporter of comprehensive reproductive health care, gay rights, and improving the lives of women and girls.

NOW members know that religion is no excuse for bigotry against women. Tens of millions of women need subsidized contraceptive services and supplies because they are unable to access or purchase them on their own, and more than half of young adult women say cost concerns have led them to not use their birth control method as directed.

An historic coalition of women’s rights, civil rights, human rights, and reproductive justice groups filed an amicus brief yesterday in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals supporting the federal district court’s decision to prevent Alabama’s COVID-19 order from resulting in the denial of abortion access to the women of Alabama and the potential criminalization of abortion providers.