Is It Fair Play? How Female Athletes Are Losing in the Age of Gender Identity

I’m the mother of two athletes, a son who currently plays college baseball and a daughter who was captain of her volleyball team and on elite club teams. Today, my daughter’s leadership, work ethic, and resiliency from sports is translating in her college endeavors, including Army ROTC. Doors of opportunity open for female athletes through […]

Easter Blessings and Legislative Update

“They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus… ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!’” Luke 24:2-3, 5-6 Indeed, the power of the Lord’s resurrection power is being proclaimed all […]

Action Needed: Freedom of Speech in Jeopardy in Charlotte

The Charlotte City Council’s new strategy to silence the prolife voices of the Love Life ministry is by implementing a noise buffer, i.e., quiet zone, at the “A Preferred Women’s Health” abortion clinic on Latrobe Drive. The quiet zone would ban singing and praying loudly and would be banned around “health care” facilities. As you know, this is […]

Legislative Update from Augusta

Right now, in the Maine legislature we are facing: • Taxpayer-funded abortion and mandated abortion coverage in health insurance policies – L.D. 820. • A ban on conversion therapy that helps individuals who are struggling with sexual confusion – L.D. 1025. • Physician-assisted suicide – L.D. 1313. • An Equal Rights Amendment that would expand […]

April 12 Prayer/Action Alert: Be Strong

“But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.” 2 Chronicles 15:7 “The only fight which is lost is that which we give up.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor These were the encouraging words our state Encourage-A-Legislator Coordinator mailed to those who are praying for our state […]

Abortion at 20 Weeks Takes the Senate Stage

Since Roe v. Wade, technology has changed our understanding of preborn life, and we need to face the truth on this issue: unborn children do feel pain. Science and medicine have no issue acknowledging this. While some preborn children are administered anesthesia during necessary surgery in utero, others have their limbs ripped from their bodies in […]

For America (Day 103) – A Prayer Against Post-Modern Anti-Woman Efforts

Father, Maker, and Designer of all Seen and unseen things, You created us in our mother’s womb With purpose and longings. You designed us to fit together So that two may become one, In a miraculous display Of Your love and the pursuit of Your people. Nothing can erase the works of Your hands. Nothing […]

A Day to Rejoice! Pro-Life Bill Signed Into Law

A Day to Rejoice! Gov. Doug Burgum signed HB 1546 into law making it a felony for a physician in North Dakota to perform a dismemberment abortion. See story here. CWA of North Dakota State Director, Linda Thorson, gave testimony in support of the bill. Concerned Women for America of North Dakota thanks all those […]

Shame on Google for dissolving its AI council over African-American leader Kay Coles James

Women across the political perspective applauded recently when Kay Coles James, the first woman and the first African-American to lead the conservative and respected Heritage Foundation, was chosen to join Google’s new external advisory council to in part discuss the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our joy lasted barely a week when, in reaction to internal pressure from […]

Saving Money Shouldn’t Mean Hurting Grandma

Concerned Women for America (CWA) has always fought to protect life from its beginning at conception until natural death. A recent hospital stay and subsequent medical care for my 80-year-old mother has served as a wakeup call to the particular vulnerability of the elderly. With this top of mind while caring for her in Tennessee, […]

Senate Rule Change on Nominations Unfortunately Necessary

The U.S. Senate has now officially moved to limit the amount of post-cloture debate time for sub-Cabinet executive nominees and judicial nominees other than the circuit and Supreme Court level. Debate time will be limited to two hours as opposed to the usual thirty. The move was (unfortunately) desperately needed after the unprecedented and unnecessary […]

You Are Needed to Help Stop A Very Dangerous Bill

L.D. 1025, a bill that would prohibit certain licensed professionals from providing conversion therapy to minors, will be heard in committee Wednesday, April 10. “Conversion therapy” is defined in L.D. 1025 as “means any practice or treatment that seeks or purports to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, including, but not limited to, […]

It is Time for Congress to Reject the Extreme Abortion Agenda and Pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on S. 160, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, sponsored by Chairman Graham (R-South Carolina). Immediately following, Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC), will join a press conference with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. […]

You are needed! Conversion therapy bill is moving in Maine.

You Are Needed to Help Stop A Very Dangerous Bill L.D. 1025, a bill that would prohibit certain licensed professionals from providing conversion therapy to minors, will be heard in committee Wednesday, April 10. “Conversion therapy” is defined in L.D. 1025 as “means any practice or treatment that seeks or purports to change an individual’s […]

Use Your Voice – Episode 10, The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

  In this episode, Doreen Denny, Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) Senior Director of Government Relations discusses H.R. 962, the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,” which would shield a newborn who survives an attempted abortion from being denied the care the baby needs. Doctors would be required to provide the same medical care to a […]

House Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Disappoints, Fails to Protect Women

This week, the House passed a reauthorization bill of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), but this bill falls short and fails to accomplish its namesake goal. From its inception, the purpose of VAWA has been to protect, support, and seek justice for women who have suffered assault or abuse. CWALAC fully supports that mission. The goal of the current VAWA reauthorization […]

The House Makes Unprecedented Moves on Born Alive

On Tuesday, Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) filed a discharge petition for H.R. 962, the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. A discharge petition is a way to bring a bill to the floor that is otherwise being blocked by the Speaker, if the majority (218) of representatives agree and sign. On every legislative day […]