Everyone Should be Equal at the Starting Line

Summary of Riley Gaines, et al. v. NCAA, et al. Complaint, filed 03/14/2024 Sixteen current and former collegiate female athletes are reiterating Justice Kavanaugh’s assertion from Nat’l Collegiate Ass’n v. Alston, (2021), that “[t]he NCAA is not above the law,” in their class action lawsuit against the NCAA. The full text of the Complaint can […]

Commemorating the Two-Year Anniversary of Dobbs— A Look Forward for the Pro-Life Movement

On June 24, 2022, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito delivered the majority opinion of the highest U.S. court, saying, “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision …” Pro-life advocates embraced one another outside the Supreme […]

Lives Saved in Post Roe World

For Immediate ReleaseJune 13, 2024 Contact:  CWA Communications [email protected] Lives Saved in Post Roe World 2nd anniversary of abortion ruling still a victory for life Washington, D.C. – Today, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, celebrates the second anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision that recognized that there […]

Hyde-Smith, Miller Introduce Bill to Protect Title IX

Title IX was once the crowning achievement of the women’s rights movement, but with the stroke of a pen and some bureaucratic maneuvering, a new rule from the Biden Administration will unconstitutionally undo what women spent decades fighting for unless the Courts step in or Congress can pass legislation to stop it. Title IX was […]

HHS to Force Doctors To Provide Transgender Surgeries

The Biden Administration is now forcing private insurance companies to cover abortion services and transgender procedures. While they’ve spent the past few years obfuscating and claiming that’s not the case, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, just admitted it in a House committee hearing. Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act […]

Supporting Families Should Be a Top Government Priority

Of all the pressing issues on the world stage, one of the most important to American families is the ability to put food on the table, an increasingly expensive task in today’s economy. But the U.S. Senate has an opportunity to pass common-sense legislation to provide much-needed economic relief to Americans while encouraging the formation […]

Children Deserve Online Protection

The last time any meaningful legislation safeguarding children online passed was in 1998, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA). How effective was COPPA? One might argue, hardly. How could it be when Google was founded in the very same year, only a month before its passage and Facebook was founded six years later. In […]

CWA Stands Up for Women in Title IX Meeting with Biden Administration Officials

Concerned Women for America (CWA) policy experts met with representatives from the United States Department of Education (ED) and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) within the Executive Office of the President to express our strong opposition to OIRA’s review of an ED’s proposed rule […]

For Shame— Irish Dance Governing Board Officially Embraces Gender Ideology

Since December, Irish dance has been the latest sport embroiled in the transgender controversy. After a 13-year-old boy won the U14 Girls category at the Southern Region Oireachtas, parents and teachers have been calling on the governing body of Irish Dance, the CLRG, to state that dancers can only compete against others of their same […]

Senate Introduces Sweeping Pro-Life Agenda

In conjunction with the 51st annual March for Life, the United States Senate is rolling out a slate of pro-life bills that protect not just the vulnerable child in the womb, but also provide for mothers, encourage the involvement of fathers, and support the important work of pregnancy resource centers. Last week, tens of thousands […]

NCAA Fails Female Athletes

“Stories of trans-identifying men displacing female athletes continue to flood the news, and NCAA President Charlie Baker’s non-action on the issue is like gasoline on the fire, torching the future of women’s opportunity in sports,” says Young Women for America leader and NCAA volleyball player Macy Petty in her latest op-ed published at FOXNews.com.  “The […]

Radical Gender Ideology Comes for Irish Dance

Behind the overabundance of glitter, mile high wigs, and piles of rhinestones, the world of Irish dance is rooted in tradition. It’s a celebration through movement of how men and women are made unique and complimentary to one another. And yet, even this highly gendered sport is not immune to the craze of gender ideology […]

CWA Raises Serious Concerns with Biden Admin New ADA Proposed Rule

In official comments to Secretary Xavier Becerra and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, raises serious concerns about the practical applications of “gender dysphoria” as a disability under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The proposed rule, Discrimination on the Basis […]

DeSantis Pledges to Protect the Unique Dignity of Women

For Immediate Release November 1, 2023 Contact:  CWA Communications [email protected] America’s Governor, Ron DeSantis, Pledges to Protect the Unique Dignity of Women Joins other candidates signing CWA Promise to American Women Washington, D.C. – Today, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, announced that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a warrior […]

Pray for Ohio Mothers and Babies

Mothers and children in the Buckeye State desperately need our prayers. This week Ohioans began voting on a state constitutional amendment that would allow abortions through all nine months of pregnancy for any reason. The amendment also seeks to keep parents away from any young mothers in distress and considering abortion by allowing abortions without […]

An Update on Government Funding

Update: On Friday afternoon, H.R. 5525, the Spending Reduction and Border Security Act, failed in the House of Representatives due to 21 Republicans and all 211 Democrats voting in opposition. With less than 24 hours of government funding left, the House considered and passed H.R. 5860, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2024 and Other Extensions Act. […]