ND WATCH RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

In the following description of "useful websites for women faculty" that appears on the ND Watch website, the bracketed material is taken from the organizations’ websites. The items are listed in the order of relevance. One pro-life organization and one conservative women’s organization are also identified on the site.

1. The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL). Its mission is to protect and preserve the right to choose while promoting policies and programs that improve women's health and make abortion less necessary. http://www.naral.org
   
   
2. Planned Parenthood Federation of America believes in the fundamental right of each individual, throughout the world, to manage his or her fertility, regardless of the individual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or residence. http://www.plannedparenthood.org
   
   
3. Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, an independent, non-profit organization "dedicated to ensuring that all women have access to appropriate and freely chosen reproductive health services." http://www.crlp.org
   
   
4. The National Organization for Women is the largest women's rights organization in the United States. http://www.now.org
   
   [“NOW affirms that reproductive rights are issues of life and death for women, not mere matters of choice. NOW fully supports access to safe and legal abortion, to effective birth control and emergency contraception, to reproductive health services and education for all women. We oppose attempts to restrict these rights through legislation, regulation or Constitutional amendment.
   
   
5. The Feminist Majority Foundation http://www.feminist.org/
   
   [“We Demand Affordable and Accessible Birth Control! The price of birth control on college campuses has increased dramatically because of a law passed by Congress in 2005 and signed into law by President Bush. Join us in demanding that Congress restore affordable birth control for college health centers and clinics serving low-income women!”]
   
   
6. Emily’s List was founded in 1985 to create a grassroots network of donors that would give women the credibility they needed to win elections. http://www.emilyslist.org/
   
   [“EMILY's LIST. . .is dedicated to building a progressive America by electing pro-choice Democratic women to federal, state, and local office.”



7. Minnesota Women’s Press, Inc. is a communications business whose mission it is to promote communication by, about and among women in ways that create community and are grounded in a transforming feminist worldview. http://www.womenspress.com/
   
   [Plethora of pro-abortion and pro-stem cell research articles.]
   
   
8. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) is a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families. http://iwpr.org/
   
   [“IWPR published a briefing paper...Policy Update on Safe and Legal Abortion 30 Years After Roe v. Wade.]

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