Activities
NARAL Pro-Choice America uses numerous tactics to lobby for liberalized access to abortion, both in the U.S. and elsewhere. It sponsors lawsuits, donates money to politicians supportive of abortion rights through its political action committee, and organizes its members (especially through Internet communication and e-mail) to contact members of Congress and urge them to support NARAL's positions. In addition, NARAL sponsors special events, most notably the March for Women's Lives in 2004. Following the move of the organizations headquarters after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision Karen Mulhauser served as the first national executive director. Her tenure ran from 1974 to 1982. The next NARAL leader was Kate Michelman; she announced her retirement in 2004. Nancy Keenan, formerly the Montana state Superintendent of Schools, is now the President of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
NARAL Pro-Choice America is a non-profit organization, and has approximately 20 state affiliates. NARAL Pro-Choice America and its affiliates have been criticized by some other pro-choice political activists, both for supporting pro-choice Republicans such as Lincoln Chafee and Michael Bloomberg, and for supporting moderate or conservative Democrats.
NARAL Pro-Choice America also sponsors public sex education and tracks state and national legislation affecting laws regarding abortion, women's health and rights.
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