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, […]

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 […]

Don’t be fooled ladies — the Equality Act is a threat to all of us

How can people like Ginni Rometty, the first female CEO of IBM, so easily jump on the bandwagon of the so-called Equality Act and fail to see its obvious threats to women? The Equality Act, which would amend existing federal civil rights laws (including the Civil Rights Act of 1964) to include sexual orientation and gender identity […]

Abortion is Not an International Right

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 63) came to an end this week at the United Nations in New York City. News reports warn that the U.S. seeks to decrease the rights of women and girls by taking away an international “right” to abortion in UN resolutions. Based mainly on propaganda from far-left […]

Secretary Pompeo Continues to Remove U.S. Taxpayer Funds Used for Abortion Overseas

Today, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced further implementation of the Mexico City Policy to protect “more unborn babies around the world than ever before” and enforce President Trump’s commitment to stop U.S. taxpayers from funding abortion overseas. In January 2017, President Trump’s executive action restored and extended the original 1984 Mexico City Policy to […]

Promoting Fiscally-Responsible Parental Leave Plans

Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have put forward an innovative plan for paid parental leave. The CRADLE Act would allow parents to receive up to three months paid parental leave in a fiscally-responsible way. Instead of creating a new entitlement program, as many on the left have suggested, the CRADLE Act is an […]

Deep in the Heart of Texas

For the ninth time during a session of the Texas Legislature, Concerned Women for America of Texas hosted “Dinner with Texas Legislators.”  This year, seventeen Texas legislators participated in the program on Tuesday evening, March 12, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Austin. Each legislator had a moment at the mic to speak to the gathering […]

CWA at the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women

This week, government delegates and non-governmental organizations from all over the world met in NYC at the United Nations for the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63). Concerned Women for America (CWA) sponsored a side-event panel on Friday, March 15, with the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) titled, “Putting Women and […]

WIN: Trump on College Campuses

President Trump signed an executive order to protect free speech on college campuses today. Because of our Young Women for America chapters and efforts across the country, we were asked to be there when he signed it! Our YWA leaders have been effected by, and watched first-hand, the attack on the First Amendment on college […]

Strengthened Debbie Smith Act Introduced in Senate

On Thursday, Senator Cornyn (R-Texas) and Senator Feinstein (R-California) introduced the Debbie Smith Act of 2019, a bill that would reauthorize funding aimed at increasing capacity for DNA testing to reduce the rape kit backlog. The Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act was first signed into law in 2004 in response to the story of Debbie Smith, a […]

Tell President Trump to Protect our Children!

Are you frustrated and bothered by what you see on TV? You are not alone. In recent years, Hollywood has taken advantage of their self-regulated TV ratings system and cable TV looks more like HBO than family-friendly programming. Networks advertise their mature and explicit programming during family-friendly shows; these commercials include overtly sexual themes, violence, […]

Hostility Towards Religion on Display at the Supreme Court in Maryland Cross Case

This week the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association. The case deals with a 93-year-old World War I memorial shaped like a cross that was erected to honor fallen soldiers. The memorial stood for 80-plus years without challenge, but now it offends the American Humanist Association […]

Senate Dems Deny the Facts About the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

On Monday, February 25, the U.S. Senate failed to advance S. 311, the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska). The bill needed 60 votes and failed by a vote of 53-44, with three senators not voting: Sens. Cramer (R-North Dakota), Scott (R-South Carolina), and Murkowski (R-Alaska). Sens. Cramer and Scott’s offices informed CWA they were unable to attend the vote due to weather delays. They are both original cosponsors of the bill and […]

Unconscionably Blocked: Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

On the heels of the most electrified month of the life debate, 80% of Americans have spoken out that they do not support infanticide. Forty-four members of Congress blocked a bill ensuring medical care to LIVING, newborn babies who survive an abortion. Think about that for a second. “Picture a baby who’s already been born, […]

Title X Final Rule Released

On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule governing the Title X family planning program. The Title X program was created to help individuals, particularly low-income individuals, access quality family planning services. This final rule requires physical and financial separation between abortion operations and family planning operations as well […]

Last Call! Urge Your Senators to Reject infanticide!

This Monday, February 25, the Senate will vote on the Born Alive Abortion Survivor’s Protection Act, S. 311, sponsored by Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse. The Born Alive bill requires doctors to provide a newborn who is born alive after an attempted abortion the same medical care that a child would be granted at the same […]

Wake Up America: Know Where Your State Stands on Abortion

This document provides an overview of state laws (as of February 8, 2019) as they relate to late-term abortion, born-alive protections, and public funding of abortion. Some states adhere to the Roe standard of viability, which is defined by the Supreme Court in Roe as “the capacity for meaningful life outside the womb, albeit with […]