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"Those of us who seek to preserve the Roe v. Wade decision face a war of attrition on the rights of women, waged by individuals who have anointed themselves moral decision-makers for all of us. At the same time, a huge proportion of women and men take the existence of the rights affirmed by Roe for granted, in part because our efforts to defeat the worst assaults have been successful much of the time. Roe v. Wade was a life-transforming event for those of us who remember all too well what life was like before it was the law of the land. It is our job to ensure that future generations of women never have to experience the horrors of reproductive health care pre-Roe v. Wade."
Read more from CEO Nancy K. Kaufman in this piece for The Huffington Post.
The US Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade 39 years ago is one of the most important victories for reproductive rights in our nation’s history. With the Roe decision, our nation’s highest court affirmed that every woman has a constitutional right to choose abortion, based on her own needs, beliefs, and religious traditions.
NCJW is proud to have joined more than 40 coalition partners in a national online petition to Congress and governors as part of "Trust Women Week" January 20-27, 2012.
Celebrate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade with action by signing the Trust Women Week petition!
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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.
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