Америкалық әйелдер репродуктивтік құқықтарын қорғау ұйымы

American reproductive rights advocacy group

Reproductive Freedom for All, formerly NARAL Pro Choice America and commonly known as simply NARAL ('/n//ɛər//əl/ NAIRəl), is a non profit 501(c)(4) organization in the United States that engages in lobbying, political action, and advocacy efforts to oppose restrictions on abortion, to expand access to abortion and birth control, and to support paid parental leave and protection against pregnancy discrimination. NARAL is associated with the NARAL Pro Choice America Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, and the NARAL Pro Choice America PAC, a political action committee. Founded in 1969, NARAL is the oldest extant abortion rights advocacy group in the United States, though it was predated by a few now defunct groups including the Society for Humane Abortion and the Association for the Study of Abortion.

Karen Mulhauser served as the first national executive director from 1974 to 1982. The next NARAL leader was Nanette Falkenburg, who served from 1982 until 1985; Kate Michelman became the next director until she announced her retirement in 2004. Nancy Keenan, formerly the Montana Superintendent of Schools, became President of NARAL and served until February 2013. Ilyse Hogue was the group's president from 2013 to 2021. In November 2021, NARAL announced the hire of their current president, Mini Timmaraju, who is the first woman of color to lead the organization.

NARAL Pro Choice America uses numerous tactics to lobby for access to abortion and birth control in the U. S., as well as to promote paid parental leave and stop pregnancy discrimination. They track state and federal legislation, endorse candidates, and run advertising and education campaigns on these issues. It sponsors lawsuits against governments and hospitals, donates money to politicians supportive of abortion rights through its political action committee, and organizes its members to contact members of Congress and urge them to support NARAL's positions. NARAL sponsored the March for Women's Lives in 2004. NARAL also sponsors public sex education, and tracks state and national legislation affecting laws regarding abortion, women's health and rights. NARAL currently recruits members from the general public through state chapters.

In 2005, NARAL Pro Choice America was criticized for an ad campaign that targeted U. S. Supreme Court chief justice nominee John Roberts, and withdrew the ad. The ad featured anti abortion violence survivor Emily Lyons, and claimed that as U. S. Deputy Solicitor General, Roberts had supported "violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber". While Roberts did argue before the Supreme Court that a 19th century statute directed against the Ku Klux Klan did not apply to protesters outside abortion clinics, the case in question occurred almost seven years before the 1998 bombing shown in the ad. The ad was retracted under pressure from other pro abortion rights groups, as undercutting the credibility of the abortion rights cause. In 2006, NARAL was criticized by some other pro abortion rights political activists for supporting former Republicans Lincoln Chafee and Michael Bloomberg, and for supporting moderate or conservative Democrats.