CWA Couch Talks – VT Political Correctness

Dr. Shea Garrison, Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) Vice President for International Affairs, interviews CWA’s CEO & President Penny Nance about her recent op-ed in The Federalist “My Son’s Freshman Orientation At Virginia Tech Was Full Of Leftist Propaganda.”

The Christian Post: Google has History of Anti-pregnancy Bias, Pro-life Group Says

Concerned Women for America CEO and President Penny Nance is quoted in an article in The Christian Post about discrimination at Google. “A former Google employee’s accusation that the tech giant discriminates against its pregnant workers comes after it has long been accused of efforts to silence pro-life voices. The pro-life group Live Action said in […]

Groups Unite to Support the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights

WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently announced the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights to ground U.S. foreign policy on human rights in America’s founding principles of individual dignity and freedom. A letter, signed by forty-six of the most influential human rights, women’s, and religious freedom organizations and leaders applauds Sec. Pompeo for his […]

Groups Unite to Support the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights

WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, The Heritage Foundation, American Values, Independent Women’s Forum, Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe (FOREF), and many more joined together to send a clear message of support to Secretary of State Pompeo on his announcement of the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights.  Click here to read the […]

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 […]

Road to Majority Conference 2019

Concerned Women for America attended the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road To Majority Policy Conference last week. CEO and President Penny Nance addressed the attendees and introduced one of our fellow women conservative leaders, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). Our Young Women for America coordinator Kelsey Good participated in the conference along with our summer interns […]

Thank You from CWA of California!

Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice! Philippians 4:4 To all who have joined in the work of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of California to protect and promote Biblical values in all levels of public policy, we send a heartfelt THANK YOU!  Your membership and donations are so appreciated as we […]

Concerned Women Celebrate Major Win for Religious Liberty at the Supreme Court

Washington, D.C. – Today, the United State Supreme Court upheld (7-2) the constitutionality of a memorial cross on public land (The American Legion v. American Humanist Association). Penny Nance, CEO & President of Concerned Women for America (CWA) had this to say: “Today’s decision is an affirmation of the principles and freedoms our veterans have fought […]

Top Faith Leaders Predict Evangelicals Will Show Up in Force for Trump in 2020

CEO and President Penny Nance is featured in The Western Journal along with other top faith leaders such as Franklin Graham, Tony Perkins and Gary Bauer. “Some of the nation’s top Christian leaders believe President Donald Trump will once again enjoy the strong backing of evangelicals in 2020, noting he now has a record, and […]

The Centennial Celebration of Women’s Suffrage

When the Founding Fathers gathered for the Continental Congress to draft a new Constitution, future first lady Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams and asked that he “remember the ladies”.[i] Women have been fighting for equal say in the political process since the founding of our nation, and 100 years ago this week, […]

House Vote Betrays Women

  Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5, the So-Called “Equality Act.” Penny Nance, President and CEO of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, released the following statement: “Today the U.S. House of Representatives tragically failed to protect women and girls. Speaker Pelosi’s deceptively-named “Equality Act” gives any man civil rights protections to claim he is a woman, […]

The Deceptively Named “Equality Act” is a Threat to Women

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) joined with Reps. Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), Jody Hice (R-Georgia), Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Carol Miller (R-West Virginia) to speak out about the Equality Act’s harmful effects on women and girls. Alongside the lawmakers, representatives from CWALAC, Women’s Liberation Front, Alliance Defending Freedom, […]

Women Across America Unite to Oppose Pelosi’s Threatening Equality Act

WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America LAC, Women’s Liberation Front, Independent Women’s Voice, Save Women’s Sports, Hands Across the Aisle Coalition for Women, and many more united in sending a clear message to Speaker Nancy Pelosi in opposition of the so-called “Equality Act,” which threatens protections and opportunities for women across America. May 14, […]

Real Clear Politics: Feminists, Conservatives Join Forces to Oppose ‘Equality Act’

Penny Nance, CWA’s CEO and President, co-authored a recent opinion piece with Natasha Chart, Board Chair of the Women’s Liberation Front, a group of self-described ‘radical feminists’. They write about their historic unity against the “Equality Act”: “In an era of increasing political divisiveness, what threat could possibly unite radical feminists and Christian women conservatives? Clearly this is a historic and momentous occasion when women on the […]

Victory for Religious Liberty

Victory for All Americans Washington, D.C. –  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a final rule to protect the “conscience” rights of our nation’s health care professionals. This new rule will allow health care workers to follow their moral and religious convictions about the services they provide without […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]