Uncle Sam Needs to Keep His Hands Off of Our Daughters

The House Armed Services Committee voted Wednesday, April 27, on Amendment 224 to HR 4909, introduced by Congressman Duncan Hunter of California, to require women 18–26 to register for the Selective Service. This amendment would make these women available to be drafted into military combat. Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America, […]

Sen. Grassley Needs Your Support on May 5 and 6 in Bedford, Mount Ayr and Leon

Greetings CWA members and friends, Sen. Grassley’s office has contacted Concerned Women for America and asked if we might be able to help raise awareness and support Grassley’s protection of the Supreme Court nominee process. They would love it if we were able to turn out folks to his upcoming town hall meetings in S/SW […]

Target’s Trans Bathroom Policy Really Isn’t about Bathrooms

Target has officially succumbed to the bathroom political pressure. I won’t lie; I was a fan of the products at Target stores and spent a decent amount of money there. The dollar bin placed ever-so-conveniently by the checkout line gets me every time. But what I’m not a fan of is that as of recent,

Debunking the Wage Gap: We Are Not Victims

We have so many opportunities in the workforce, yet women are often still told that we’ve got to run ourselves ragged and forego balance in order to break through the glass ceiling. Why? Part of the reason work-life balance is difficult to achieve is because our society places so much weight on the financial success

Hoeven Giving Us the Choice

State Director Linda Thorson’s letter to the editor about the Supreme Court vacancy was printed in the The Bismark Tribune.

If You Are Pro-Life, Memorize These 10 Simple Facts

You can use this chart as a guide to talking to uncertain or pro-choice friends curious about why you are pro-life and to motivate the passively pro-life towards further action. Facts 1-3 are about abortion in America. Facts 4 and 5 are about the corruption of the abortion industry. Facts 6 and 7 are about […]

Why I Support Snooping on our Kids

Editor’s note: The following oped is excerpted from “Feisty & Feminine” (Zondervan, April 12, 2016) by Penny Young Nance. When my daughter Claire was around eighth or ninth grade, she came home one day in a bad mood. Granted, at that point in her life being moody was not that odd, so I didn’t question […]

CWA of Illinois Supports the National Day of Prayer – Thursday, May 5, 2016

The 65rd annual National Day of Prayer (NDP) is Thursday, May 5, 2016 – a day set aside by Congress in 1988 for citizens to take time out from their daily schedules to pray for their communities, their nation, and their leaders. Dr. Tony Evans, 2016 National Day of Prayer Honorary Chairman, wrote a special […]

Give the ERA a Knockout Punch in Illinois in 2016

ERA – the Constitutional Amendment that is technically dead has been resuscitated for the 15th time in Illinois as SJRCA-24, U.S. Constitution Equal Rights Amendment.  A committee hearing is scheduled next Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. in the Illinois Senate.  Click here for more information. History of ERA for those who are too […]

CWA’s CEO and President Calls on All Americans to Support North Carolina

Dear Friend, My phone has been ringing with urgent calls from state leaders in North Carolina, pleading for help from Concerned Women for America (CWA). These brave leaders stepped up for common sense by passing a simple, much-needed law preventing transgendered men from sharing a public restroom, locker room, or shower facility with your wife, […]

We Asked. You Acted.

The staff at Concerned Women for America (CWA) is extremely grateful that our members are not simply supporters in name but in deed. Our mailboxes were flooded with stacks of petitions expressing our members’ support for the defense of marriage and the family. Each signature represented a member who was stating that he or she […]

Breaking the Billion-Dollar Bondage of Pornography

Pornography: it is a billion-dollar industry wreaking havoc on our men, women and children. Yet, it is rare to hear much about it. That is until recently, as more extensive research is done on the issue, all pointing to pornography’s many harms. Today, our culture paints pornography as harmless, but researchers have found an overwhelming