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WENDY WRIGHT is President of Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation's largest public policy women's organization. Miss Wright helps promote legislation and international policies that are beneficial to women and families, briefs congressional and administration staff on pro-family issues, and trains grassroots activists. She is also 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.
Policy Expert and Activist:
Miss Wright has been active in pro-life, family and religious issues for over 15 years. She is coordinating the current challenge by doctors and women to the Food and Drug Association of its approval of the abortion drug RU-486, based on the drug not meeting safety standards for patients. She testified at the FDA Advisory Committee on keeping the morning-after pill as prescription only. Miss Wright has been involved in 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 and training pro-family leaders in Mexico.
United Nations Lobbyist:
She has lobbied at and reported 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, 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, 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. Call for scheduling at (202) 488-7000 or email sholliday@cwfa.org, or www.cwfa.org.
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