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Wendy Wright
President 2/2/2002 Wendy Wright is President of Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation's largest public policy women's organization. Miss Wright promotes legislation and international policies that are beneficial to women and families, briefs congressional and presidential staff on pro-family issues, and trains grassroots activists. She is frequently interviewed in national media on moral, social and political issues. Miss Wright was named among "The 100 Most Powerful Women of Washington" in 2006 by the Washingtonian Magazine. The National Pro-Life Religious Council awarded Wendy for her "continuous leadership in the cause of life."
Policy Expert and Activist:
Miss Wright has been active in pro-life, family and religious issues for over 15 years. She has coordinated the challenge by doctors and women to the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion drug RU-486 and a similar challenge to keep the morning-after pill as prescription only. Miss Wright has been involved in pro-life freedom of speech cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Supreme Court and Florida Supreme Court. Her international experience includes teaching at the Sri Lanka Bible College, advocating on behalf of Chinese refugees fleeing China's forced abortion and sterilization population program, training pro-family leaders in Mexico, and advising Kosovo’s new government on its proposed Constitution’s threat to life and family.
United Nations Lobbyist:
She lobbies at and reports on United Nations conferences on human rights, cloning, women's rights, population control, and children's rights. Wright testified before a congressional Human Rights Caucus exposing attempts to legalize prostitution through the United Nations.
Author:
Her editorials, articles and letters have been published in USA Today, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal- Constitution, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, WORLD magazine, Center of Tomorrow journal; Insight magazine, Human Events, Florida Today, Binghamton Press & Sun, Citizen magazine, Family Voice and other publications.
Radio Host:
Miss Wright served as a guest host and as a regular guest on Concerned Women Today.
Spokesperson:
She speaks on behalf of women and conservatives on a variety of topics. She has been a guest on radio talk shows like NPR's Talk of the Nation, CBS Radio News, and The Laura Ingraham Show. Wright has appeared on PBS' Lehr NewsHour, ABC’s Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight; BBC; FOX News Channel's O'Reilly Factor, The Edge with Paula Zahn, FOX News LIVE; CNN's Talk Back Live, Situation Room, Inside Politics, American Morning, Crossfire, Wolf Blitzer Reports and The Point with Greta Van Susteren; NBC’s Today Show, MSNBC's Donahue, Scarborough Country, Connected Coast-to-Coast, The Abrams Report and Mike Barnicle Show; CNBC's Rivera Live; NBC Nightly News; CBS' Up to the Minute; CBN; Cox TV; Tribune TV; Sky News; Canadian TV; Belo TV; Hearst TV; and German TV.
She has been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Washington Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Sun, WORLD, Christianity Today and numerous other media outlets. She is regularly quoted by Family News in Focus, CNSNews.com, Radio America, SRN News, USA Radio News, American Family Radio and Agape Press.
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Issues:
Abortion, Morning-After Pill, RU-486, Embryonic Stem Cells, Cloning, United Nations, Religious Freedom and National Sovereignty
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