Idaho Becomes First State to Protect Women’s Sports From Transgender Agenda

CWA’s Vice President for Government Relations, Doreen Denny, wrote the following piece published in The Daily Signal. “Idaho Gov. Brad Little has given women athletes renewed hope. Faced with a politically correct culture that is denying women the right to a fair playing field in sports, the Republican governor signed into law new protections for […]

CWA Welcomes DOJ Action to Protect Women’s Sports

Washington, D.C. — Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC), made the following statement after the U.S. Department of Justice led by Attorney General William Barr filed a Statement of Interest in federal court against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference for their policy that forces female athletes to compete against male athletes […]

House Republicans Force Floor Vote on Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

At the end of February, on the heels of the U.S. Senate’s two pro-life votes, House Republicans successfully forced a vote on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act through a procedural measure called a Motion to Recommit (MTR). This was the 80th time that House Republicans, led by Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Missouri), sought a […]

U.S. Senators Debate and Vote on Two Pro-life Bills

Tuesday was a dark day for America. The Senate failed to advance two desperately needed pro-life bills: the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Pain Capable would protect unborn children from being aborted after 20 weeks, the threshold science definitively agrees unborn children feel pain. Born Alive […]

A Tragic Day for the Most Vulnerable in this Country

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                           February 25, 2020 Contact: Toni DeLancey, PhD | Direct Line: (202) 266-4816 | Mobile: (202) 527-3434   Washington, D.C. — Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC), made the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted today on two pro-life bills, the Pain Capable Unborn […]

Act Now to Protect First Amendment Rights for College Students

Act Now to Protect First Amendment Rights for College Students.  Religious freedom is under attack on college campuses. Imagine being falsely told your First Amendment Rights don’t apply at a public university. That is the reality for many college students involved in faith-based clubs on campuses across the country. The U.S. Department of Education has […]

Impeachment on Trial in the US Senate

(Too) much has been witnessed and written regarding the impeachment of Donald John Trump. As the first session of the 116th congress drew to a close in 2019, House Democrats relentlessly pursued a myriad of charges against the President declaring “high crimes and misdemeanors” against him.  Repeatedly, they changed their tactics on how to define […]

The States Act: Federal Marijuana Legalization Masquerading as States’ Rights

  Marijuana is not a state’s rights issue and misguided bills like the STATES Act create more confusion and problems than it claims to solve.  We are living in unprecedented times — never before have states bypassed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to legalize a federally illegal schedule I substance on the state level […]

Concerned Women for America Cheers HHS Rule Ending Hidden Obamacare Abortion Surcharge

Washington, DC — Today the Trump Administration announced a final rulemaking that restores congressional intent in Obamacare to keep any coverage of abortion-related services separate from premiums for health care services. Section 1303 of the Affordable Care Act is now clarified to require that an abortion surcharge be collected separately from health care premiums.  The […]

CWA Applauds Final Passage of Debbie Smith Act

  CWA Applauds Final Passage of Debbie Smith Act   WASHINGTON, DC – Last night the U.S. Senate completed action on a 5-year reauthorization of the Debbie Smith Act, a vital program first enacted in 2004 to help states and localities end the backlog of untested DNA evidence, specifically sexual assault kits. Before final passage […]

Concerned Women for America (LAC) Condemns House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Vote

Today, the House Judiciary Committee approved both articles of impeachment against President Trump. Penny Nance, President and CEO of Concerned Women for America LAC, has this to say: The 23 members approving of this malicious partisan impeachment vote have done great damage to our country today. Concerned Women for America (CWA) supporters from around the country […]

Tell Congress No to Funding Pro-Abortion Groups Overseas

Concerned Women for America opposes funding abortion oversees. Another Christmas shutdown looms over Capitol Hill.  This week a Continuing Resolution moved the spending expiration deadline to December 20. This delay does not remedy serious and real problems in the appropriations process, like the Senate FY 2020 State-Foreign Operations (SFOPS) bill that would undermine pro-life gains […]

Democrats Playing Election-Year Politics with the Violence Against Women Act

CWA’s Vice President of Government Relation, Doreen Denny wrote the following Op-Ed about the Violence Against Women Act. Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Dianne Feinstein (D-California) spent months collaborating on a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Their attempts to bring bipartisanship back to the process after the House majority rejected such collaboration were […]

CWA Impeachment Run-Down and Prayer Guide

In case you’ve missed it, this week, the U.S. House of Representatives started public hearings in their impeachment inquiry into President Trump. If you have watched any of the impeachment proceedings, you have seen hostile partisan politics. The Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee carefully curated a list of people and conducted a closed-door selection […]

Trump Administration to Reverse Obama-era Regs that Sidelined Faith-Based Adoption and Foster Care Agencies

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UPDATE: President Trump just issued the new proposed rule that would reverse an Obama-era regulation that harmed faith-based adoption and foster care providers. This Obama “nondiscrimination” mandate, imposed just days before President Trump was inaugurated, jeopardized the status of faith-based adoption and foster care providers who work with adoptive and foster families who shared their […]

Impeachment Masquerade

On Halloween, the House of Representatives voted largely along party lines on a resolution that presumably would unmask the secrecy of the ongoing behind-closed-doors investigation of President Trump.  Two Democrats, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-New Jersey) and Rep. Colin Peterson (D-Minnesota), joined with the entire Republican caucus to vote against the resolution. The House resolution […]

Concerned Women for America LAC Supports Graham Resolution on Impeachment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 25, 2019 Contact: Toni DeLancey Direct Line: (202) 266-4816 | Mobile: (202) 527-3434 STATEMENT by CWA CEO & President Penny Nance “The blatant partisan impeachment effort underway in the U.S. House of Representatives is not happening in a vacuum. It is not an organic response to impartial concerns for the country. […]