On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

In 1988 Nancy Keenan won the first of three terms as the statewide elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for Montana. " In a speech presented on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Keenan began her career as a special-education teacher before winning election to the Montana House of Representatives.

She served as president from 2004-2013.