Defunding Planned Parenthood: the Next Step in Implementing the President’s Agenda

President Trump’s campaign promises were clear and concise. He assured voters his administration would cut government waste, prohibit the mutilation of children, scale back bureaucratic overreach, prohibit federal mandates on abortion, and promote strong families. His tremendous accomplishments already chart a clear next step for continuance of that agenda. It’s now time to defund Planned […]

Heartbreak in Chicago

The nature of the events which grieve me enough to sound the alarm for you are such that I should first say, this is not meant as a partisan post. In the context of our politics, I am a Republican because I am a conservative, but I am not that passionate about Republicanism to be […]

CWA Stand for Life in Iowa Supreme Court

Concerned Women for America (CWA) submitted an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief in support of the state of Iowa’s efforts to establish a culture of life and curtail abortion radicalism in the Hawkeye State. The brief challenges Planned Parenthood and other abortion doctors’ ability to bring legal challenges to the state’s pro-life laws. Here is our summary of […]

The Hyde Amendment and Human Life

Today, the House held an appropriations subcommittee hearing titled “The Impact on Women Seeking an Abortion but are Denied Because of an Inability to Pay.” Calling it what it is, a hearing dedicated to the elimination of the Hyde Amendment, would not be as well received.      By way of background, the Hyde Amendment is a critical pro-life measure introduced by […]

Huge Win for CWA: Planned Parenthood Affiliate Finally Admits its Racists Roots

Concerned Women for America (CWA) has been fighting for years to expose Planned Parenthood’s (PP) legacy of death which has its roots in the racist eugenics movement. As PP celebrated 100 years a few years back, CWA launched a campaign called “100 No More,” exposing the organization’s racists founding through eugenicist Margaret Sanger. CWA also […]

Nance: Norma McCorvey’s Testimony Reveals Roe v. Wade’s Foundation of Lies

CWA’s CEO and President Penny Young Nance wrote the following op-ed published on CNS News. “It is always sobering to stand and contemplate the destruction and devastation left along the pathway of “Hurricane” Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that invented a right to abortion. It is worse than any of the modern-day disasters we […]

COVID-19 LETTER: Pro-life Leaders Warn of Abortion Industry Exploitation

CWA signed on to a letter written to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, along with other pro-life leaders, to show how the abortion industry is exploiting this coronavirus pandemic. Here is an excerpt from the letter: “While we are in a hectic race to save lives, Planned Parenthood and other powers in […]

The Never-ending Impeachment

CWA staff at 2019 March for Life

Impeachment Day 3 Recap We continued to hear the same unproven allegations from the House managers as they presented their case to remove the President before the Senate on day two of their opening statements. And, the mindboggling thing is how long they have been preparing for this dud. Vanity Fair, December 15, 2016: “Democrats […]

Doreen Denny: Planned Parenthood Chose to Give up Federal Funding – It wasn’t Forced out of Title X Program

CWA’s Senior Director of Government Relations, Doreen Denny, wrote an op-ed featured on FoxNews.com about Planned Parenthood’s recent decision. “Planned Parenthood claims it was “forced out” of the federal Title X family planning program by the Trump administration. Hardly. The choice to exit was Planned Parenthood’s alone. Title X is the federal program that provides access […]

Planned Parenthood Withdraws From Title X Program Over Trump Rule

CWA’s Senior Director of Government Relations, Doreen Denny, was featured on NPR discussing Planned Parenthood’s withdrawal from Title X family planning program. “Planned Parenthood is leaving the federal Title X family planning program rather than comply with new Trump administration rules regarding abortion counseling. The new rules issued by the U.S. Department of Health and […]

CWA to Planned Parenthood: Choice is in Your Court, Not 9th Circuit’s

WASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, August 19, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must receive plans from Title X grantees, including Planned Parenthood, proving how they will comply with new rules to uphold long-standing federal law. These rules require full financial and physical separation of Title X funds from abortion services and bar abortion […]

Use Your Voice – Episode 12, Abortion and Eugenics

In this episode, Mario Diaz, Esq., Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) General Counsel, discusses a recent Supreme Court decision where Justice Clarence Thomas exposes the clear connection between abortion and eugenics. He said, “Abortion is an act rife with the potential for eugenic manipulation.” The case is Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, and you […]

Concerned Women for America Celebrates Long-Overdue Enforcement of Life-Affirming Title X Rules

  Washington, D.C. – Earlier this week, the Trump Administration announced that restrictions over abortion-referrals and over clinics receiving federal funding will take effect and be enforced by Health and Human Services (HHS). Family planning clinics will no longer be allowed to provide abortion referrals and must be financially separate from any provision of abortion […]

Penny Nance: Democratic candidates are really pro-abortion, not pro-choice

Penny Nance penned the following opinion piece for FoxNews.com: Remember these statements by Democrats seeking to become their party’s presidential nominee? “I believe that reproductive rights are human rights, they are civil rights, and they are non-negotiable,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York said in an interview with The Atlantic earlier this month. “We must be vigilant in […]

Use Your Voice – Episode 12, Abortion and Eugenics

In this episode, Mario Diaz, Esq., Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) General Counsel, discusses a recent Supreme Court decision where Justice Clarence Thomas exposes the clear connection between abortion and eugenics. He said, “abortion is an act rife with the potential for eugenic manipulation.” The case is Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky and […]

Billionaires Find New Ways to Push for Abortion on Demand

Below are excerpts from a very interesting article by Dave Andrusko at National Right to Life. I commend it to you in its entirety. I think it is important for Concerned Women for America (CWA) members to realize what we are up against when it comes to protecting the sanctity of every human life at […]

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 […]

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 […]