Agency Details:

NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin

NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin is the political arm of the pro-choice movement, building a culture of freedom and personal responsibility. Our political advocacy ensure women the full range of reproductive health care services, including preventing unintended pregnancies, bearing healthy children, and choosing safe, legal abortion.

Description:
NARAL (National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League)Pro-Choice Wisconsin creates social change through traditional and emerging grassroots organizing. We envision a future where every Wisconsinite is informed about his or her reproductive rights and has actual - not just theoretical - access to the full range of reproductive care. Ours is a ground-up approach, responding to opportunities with innovative policy ideas and developing new tools to engage communities in this movement.

History:
In 1982, seven pro-choice activists in Milwaukee concerned about Wisconsin's restrictive abortion laws formed a new grassroots political organization that would solely work to protect every woman's right to choose. The Wisconsin Pro-Choice Conference was established to educate and activate Wisconsinites about abortion rights. It was a leader in the Milwaukee Clinic Protection Coalition, recruiting, organizing and training about 5,000 volunteers for clinic protection and peaceful counter-protest during the peak of the anti-choice movement's violent period.
In the late 1980s, the Conference affiliated with NARAL, expanding its efforts to secure reproductive rights using the political process to advocate for change. NARAL Wisconsin shifted from being a Milwaukee-centered group to a statewide organization. In 2001, we established a Foundation, later hiring a small staff and moving our office to Madison to have greater political impact. Today, NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin is the key grassroots reproductive rights organization in Wisconsin, with many organizing, political and educational successes to our credit. While our programs, stature, and political influence have grown tremendously, our mission and values remain the same. We operate on a small budget and are proud to be a membership and volunteer-driven organization, focused on local grassroots organizing for social justice and in particular on empowering traditionally marginalized communities. We work creatively, collaboratively and efficiently to activate and train new leaders in the reproductive justice movement.

Contact person: Lisa Subeck, Executive Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: 608-287-0176

Address:

122 State Street, Suite 308 Madison, WI 53703 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.ProChoiceWisconsin.org

Directions:

We are located one block from the Capitol on State Street. Our office is located in the same building as the Women's Fitness Center and Madison's Crab Shack. We are on the third floor (look for the pro-choice. . . (more)

Last updated on February 4, 2010