Presidential Math

Quick! Someone Common Core this for me! Have you ever heard the one-liner, “Over 78% of statistics are made up on the spot”? Well, that joke has now made it to the White House — and the president loves to tell variations of it at his press conferences. Most recently, the president claimed that “99% […]

CWA Joins in Rally to Say ‘Enough is Enough! We Must Defund Planned Parenthood’

Washington, D.C. – The nation’s largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood, currently receives federal funding: over one-half billion taxpayer dollars per year. An organization that claims to serve and protect women has repeatedly done the exact opposite. Concerned Women for America is joining other organizations around the nation to say “Enough is enough.” Planned Parenthood betrays […]

Protesting vs. Sidewalk Counseling

There are such noble reasons for protests. Truly there are.  As I sit here, my office prepares to protest the so-called “deal” with Iran, which is really no deal at all, but an unwise and naïve concession.  Protests matter.  They start conversations.  They move hearts.  Some are crazy and violent and without a message (think […]

Dr. Bruchalski’s Road to Damascus Story

In the beginning of the pro-life movement, we first messaged our position in terms of saving the lives of the unborn, and rightly so.  But the movement realized people needed to know that mothers were also cared for, so pregnancy centers and slogans like “Love Them Both” and “One Dead: One Wounded” started to become […]

Defending Planned Parenthood is Blindness

Nothing is beneath the horror of Planned Parenthood.  This has got to stop! Why do we fund Planned Parenthood? Why does the government give Planned Parenthood over $528 million in taxpayer funding each year (that’s $1.4 million per day) when they had excess revenue of $127 million according to their last annual report and their […]

Penny Nance Responds to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest

Washington, D.C. — Penny Nance responds to White House press secretary Josh Earnest’s characterization of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee’s rally today in Lafayette Park as “pro-war.” Attending the rally was Armed Services Subcommittee Chairman Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and others. Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) CEO and President Penny […]

CWALAC Rally a Red, White, and Blue (and Pink!) Success!

The sound of flags unfurled and waving in the wind was the loudest sound we heard as we walked up to CWALAC’s rally, “Protesting a Bad Deal with Iran, American Hostages Left Behind.” The mood was tense. Surrounding the podium were members of the notoriously liberal Code Pink group. They had earlier shown up at […]

UPDATED: Protest Against the Bad Deal with Iran Which Leaves Behind Four Americans

Featuring Penny Nance, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Rand Paul, and others Thursday July 23, 2015 | 12:00 p.m. Lafayette Park  WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) will host a demonstration to address the Obama Administration’s deal with Iran and the fact that it leaves four American hostages behind. The event includes remarks from Sen. […]

CWALAC Calls for Congress to Pass a Resolution of Disapproval on the Iran Deal

Washington, D.C. – Tuesday morning, President Obama announced that the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, reached an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC), had this to say: “The content of this deal with Iran is greatly troubling. It’s […]

Exposed! Planned Parenthood’s True Colors Continue to Surface

Washington, D.C. — The nation’s largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood, currently receives federal funding — over one billion taxpayer dollars. Penny Nance, Concerned Women for America CEO and President, said today: “Thirty to one hundred dollars; that’s the price Planned Parenthood appears to be profiting per dead baby. The recent video of Planned Parenthood’s senior director of […]

Basic Guidelines for a Loving Conversation on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

Many Christian women are discouraged as we process the loss of the marriage battle at the Supreme Court, and rightly so.  But 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 reminds us that, “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed but not in despair; persecuted but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”  The passage goes […]

Administration Leaving Americans Behind in Final Iran Deal?

Washington, D.C. – A final deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program could be announced at any moment. Will Pastor Saeed and the other Americans imprisoned in Iran be left behind? Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, had this to say: […]

Forced Marriages: A Case of ‘Happily Never After’

Twenty: the number of minutes that Esther had to meet her husband before she was engaged and married off by her parents. Seventeen: the age that Esther was when she was married. Ten: the number of years that Esther was abused by her “husband.” During that span of time, not only did he rape her, but […]

Reigniting Unity by Removing the Confederate Flag

Concerned Women for America is honored to stand with South Carolina’s Governor, Nikki Haley, in her call for the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of South Carolina’s state capitol, and here’s why. This matter has been an issue for over five decades, but we are speaking out now in support for Gov. […]

CWALAC Celebrates Passage of Historic Vote in the House of Representatives

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, as we mark two years since the conviction of abortionist Kermit Gosnell for murder, we celebrate the House of Representatives’ historic passage of the Pain-Capable Unborn Children Protection Act by a vote of 242-184,Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee CEO and President, Penny Nance,  made the following remarks

Improvements to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36)

Born Alive Protections: The Pain-Capable bill requires a second physician to be present at any abortion after 20 weeks, so that the abortionist focuses on the woman and the other doctor can provide rigorous care to preserve the life and health of a baby born alive. It also requires that a baby born alive be […]

The Evolution of Ma’am

What do you call a man in a dress? “Freshman,” if you’re going to the all-women’s Smith College this fall. The college is changing its policy on transgendered women. (For the uninitiated, that’s men in skirts — never, ever to be confused with men in kilts. *cough, cough!*)