Our 2021 Roe v. Wade Anniversary Fundraiser Was a Success!
On January 22, 2021, the 48th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, National Women's Liberation started our annual Roe v. Wade Anniversary Fundraiser. We featured nearly 40 testimonies and summaries of movement wins in women's struggle to be free in our…
The fight for access to the morning-after pill (testimony from NWL's 2021 Roe v. Wade Anniversary Fundraiser)
I have a long history with the morning after pill. In 1990, I was co-leading the University of Florida Campus National Organization for Women chapter when we got word of a campus pharmacist refusing to dispense the morning after…
Testimony from the Redstockings 1969 Abortion Speakout
The groundbreaking Redstockings 1969 Abortion speakout included stories of women who had obtained a legal abortion (also referred to as a therapeutic abortion) by declaring insanity. This required finding two psychiatrists to certify you as insane, and then presenting your…
Be a part of the political solution
All of a sudden there were a whole bunch of women telling the truth about abortion. Finally! Finally! We were saying yeah, we did it, we had it, and we want our rights. We want to have legal free abortion.”…
Celebrate the 48th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Donate to NWL
“You are the rudest bunch of people I have ever met.” –NY State Senator Seymour Thaler, to women’s liberation protesters. On February 13, 1969, four years before the Roe vs. Wade decision, women who would later go on to found…
Celebrate Roe by Funding the Feminist Fight
“Even the most mundane, establishment-oriented law schools routinely teach that important legal cases lag far behind the social movements that create them…Supreme Court cases bob along behind social reality like little rowboats towed behind huge gun-ships. Thus, when we celebrate…