National Organization for Women
Invitation to Tue. 6-24-25 Noon Zoom Clearinghouse on Women’s Issues Meeting
June 24 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/ meeting/register/ tZApdumorjwiHtRC2_ MZGFCpNQz79Kah67k5
After registering at above link, or CWI webpage https://womensclearinghouse.org, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting Tue 6-24, 2025, 12 noon to 1:15 PM (ET).
“Understanding and Counteracting Threats to Reproductive Rights”
It is a major challenge for feminists to keep informed of the major threats to reproductive rights that have increased in the current Trump 2 Administration at the Federal and State levels. We have experts to help us understand the history, types, and importance of these threats to women’s health in general and to understand the possibilities and challenges of medication as it is used for contraception and abortion in the U.S and the world. Jan Erickson, Co-President of CWI will introduce the presenters and moderate this CWI meeting with questions and answers from the virtual participants.
Angela Cobian, Senior Director of Organizing, Partnerships, and Constituency Team, Policy, Campaigns, and Advocacy Division, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Planned Parenthood Federation of America or an alterative Planned Parenthood expert will lead the discussion by providing a brief history of contraception, abortion and Planned Parenthood in the US. Then she will discuss the Post Roe threats such as what was covered in Project 2025, the Trump Exec Orders, Congressional Legislation, and especially threatening state legislation. She will then cover strategies and actions that give us hope and describe how we can counteract these threats. She will conclude by describing what is needed to save federal funding for Planned Parenthood which was threatened by the House version with the elimination of Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood Health Clinics.
Kirsten Moore, Director of Expanding Medication Abortion Access (EMAAProject.org) which seeks to improve the way medications prescribed for medication abortion care are dispensed in the U.S. to make the process consistent with the medical and scientific evidence and to meet women’s needs. Kirsten Moore will focus on the difference between emergency contraception and abortion. She will also explain how medications often used for abortions also help with many other health solutions and thus why restrictions on their use are even more dangerous. Her call to action is for MifeInAll 50.
CWI Elections
After the Q&A at the end of the meeting, we will have the CWI annual elections meeting of its officers and board of directors. Please let Sue Klein or Jan Erickson know if you would like to join us on the CWI Board. The Board Members who will continue to the second year of their term include Holly Taggert Joseph, Treasurer; Kathy Chiron, Secretary; and Loretto Gubernatis, VP Media Outreach. The Members who will run for reelection during the 6/24 meeting to terms ending in 2027 include Sue Klein and Jan Erickson, Co-Presidents; Connie Cordovilla, VP Membership; Alotta Taylor, VP Diversity; Jeanette Lim Esbrook, VP Legal Affairs; and Sherry Klein, VP Technology.
Cordially,
Sue Klein and Jan Erickson, Co-Presidents, CWI