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"According to the Guttmacher Institute, last year more than 1100 anti-abortion proposals were introduced in the legislatures of all 50 states, and of these, 135 were enacted in 36 states. More than two-thirds further restricted access to abortion. Among the measures adopted, five states enacted provisions to ban abortion at or beyond 20 weeks’ gestation, an arbitrary ban not grounded in medicine. Four more states enacted burdensome regulations to abortion clinics that will make their operations increasingly expensive or impossible. Nine states adopted restrictions to insurance coverage of abortion."
Read more from CEO Nancy K. Kaufman in this op-ed published in The Forward.
This year, you have an opportunity to exercise your power by casting a ballot in the 2012 election. Whether you plan to vote early, absentee, or on Election Day, affirm your commitment to the issues you care about by signing NCJW’s 2012 voter pledge today!
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The online extension of NCJW in Action includes content you can’t find in the printed version, such as expanded articles, additional photos, and places to comment on the stories.
Read more about voting rights and a recent success in defeating harmful voter ID laws, the NCJW Women's Mission to Israel, and three generations of reproductive rights advocates in these expanded online excluxives.
Take a deeper look into some of our most popular stories from the latest NCJW in Action!
"About a month ago I left Israel for a 10-day vacation, only to discover upon my return that it had become a different Israel. Gender segregation, an issue that NCJW has been involved in for years (e.g., Women of the Wall, the segregation on public buses, and the rights of agunot) had become front-page news with the story of Naama, a young child in Beit Shemesh taunted for her “immodest dress” by ultra-Orthodox zealots."
Read more from Shari Eshet, director of the NCJW Israel office, in this exclusive post to the Lilith magazine blog.
As part of our commemoration of the 39 anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision this month, we launched a blog contest to hear first-hand from our readers why Roe is so important. Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry to the contest. We received many wonderful submissions and appreciate the time and effort that went into each one!
Winning post featured on the NCJW Insider:
Reproductive Care Before Roe v. Wade
by Dr. Nilza Kallos — Miami Section
