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{{short description|American reproductive rights advocacy group}} {{Use American English|date = August 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date = August 2019}} {{Infobox organization | name = Reproductive Freedom for All | image = Reproductive Freedom for All Logo2n 2023.svg | size = 180 | caption = | abbreviation = NARAL | formation = 1969 | type = [[501(c)(4)]] with associated 501(c)(3) and PAC | status = | purpose = | headquarters = [[Washington, D.C.|Washington, D. C.]] | founder = {{ubl|Lawrence Lader|[[Ernesta Drinker Ballard]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HRouCAAAQBAJ&dq=%22founder+of+naral%22&pg=PA26 |title=Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 - Google Books |date=2006-09-22 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=9780252097478 |accessdate=2022-04-24}}</ref>|[[Bernard Nathanson]]|[[Betty Friedan]]}} | membership = 4 million (2022)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/about/|title=Who we are|access-date=2022-09-26}}</ref> | language = | leader_title = President | leader_name = [[Mini Timmaraju]] | leader_title2 = | leader_name2 = | main_organ = | budget = | website = {{URL|https://reproductivefreedomforall.org/}} | remarks = }} '''Reproductive Freedom for All''', formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America and commonly known as simply '''NARAL''' ({{IPAc-en|Λ|n|ΙΙr|Ιl}} {{Respell|NAIR|Ιl}}), is a non-profit [[501(c)(4)]] organization in the [[United States]] that engages in [[lobbying]], [[politics|political action]], and advocacy efforts to oppose [[restrictions on abortion]], to expand access to legal [[abortion]] and [[birth control]], and to support paid [[parental leave]] and protection against [[pregnancy discrimination]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/about/ |title=About Us--NARAL Pro Choice America |author=<!--Not stated--> |access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Searcy|first1=Dionne|title=Verizon Wireless Bars Abortion-Rights Group's Texting|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119086739632741163|access-date= 2015-04-27 |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=September 27, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Lerer |first=Lisa |date=2023-09-20 |title=Abortion Rights Group Sees Mission Beyond 'Pro-Choice,' So It Has a New Name |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/us/politics/naral-name-change.html |access-date=2023-09-20 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> NARAL is associated with the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, a [[501(c)(3) organization|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,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kliff|first1=Sarah|title=Exclusive: NARAL President Nancy Keenan to step down|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/exclusive-naral-president-nancy-keenan-to-step-down/2012/05/10/gIQAn85PGU_blog.html|access-date=27 April 2015|newspaper=Washington Post|date=May 10, 2012}}</ref> though it was predated by a few now-defunct groups, including the [[Society for Humane Abortion]] and the [[Association for the Study of Abortion]].
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