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Issues – Abortion Access The right to choose abortion is essential to ensuring a woman can decide for herself if, when and with whom to start or grow a family. We’ll never stop fighting to protect and expand this fundamental human right.

Issues – Birth Control Every woman should have access to affordable birth control that is right for her—no matter where she lives, where she works or how much money she makes—so she can control her own future.

Issues – Fighting Pregnancy discrimination When women choose to have children, their employers should respect that choice, not discriminate against them.

Issues – Paid family leave Paid family leave is a critical component of reproductive freedom, and everyone deserves the dignity and financial stability that it offers.

Tactics Petitions Campaigns with the central goal of protecting and expanding reproductive freedom across the country. – ‘Say no to the 6 week Abortion ban in Congress.’ / NARAL in your neighbourhood Donations

Successes Pushed Netflix to expand its parental leave policy, Got a question about abortion access asked at a presidential debate Helped send pro-choice champions to the U.S. Senate. 300,000 Activists Demand Clinic Violence be Investigated as Domestic Terrorism – 2015

Failures Spent millions of dollars and hours trying to alert voters of the consequences of giving Republicans total control of both the legislative and executive branches of the federal government.. However, as is evident those efforts were for nothing. Trump promised to fill the Judiciary with anti-choice judges that he believed would fulfil the far-right’s obsession with overturning Roe V. Wade. In 2004, NARAL tried unsuccessfully to prevent the passage of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA), which made it an added criminal offense for someone to injure or kill a fetus while carrying out a crime against a pregnant woman.

Funding Receives financial support from individuals as well as charitable foundations. Donations from members – One million members and supporters as well as 22 state affiliates

Influences on Us politics NARAL also works against the nomination of federal judges and cabinet members who oppose unconstrained abortion-on-demand. Opposed the nominations of Supreme Court candidates like Robert Bork, William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas. In May 2008, NARAL's Political Action Committee became the first major pro-choice PAC to endorse Barack Obama for U.S. President.