
The America First Women’s Initiative has excelled over the years in producing consistent policy wins around saving girls sports, eliminating child gender modification, school choice, empowering military spouses, and huge efforts in taking back the national narrative around women’s health and reproductive policy.
As we enter AFWI 2.0, we welcome Stacey Schieffelin, our outstanding new Chair, who ushers in a new area of fighting for T.R.U.T.H.: Transparency, Revitalization and Reaffirmation, Unity, Trust, and Health.
Under Stacey’s leadership, we will expand our coalition, create volunteer opportunities, plan impactful events, and equip America First women with every tool they need to become warriors for our Republic.
This is our moment. Our mission. And we will not fail.
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AFPI Applauds Historic University of Pennsylvania Resolution
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released the following statement from Stacey Schieffelin, Chair of America First Women’s Initiative and Jessica Steinmann, Executive General Counsel and co-chair of the AFPI’s Center for Litigation, celebrating the historic resolution reached between the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights & University of Pennsylvania (UPenn):
Beyond Dobbs: It’s Time to Empower Women with Truth, Not Tragedy
Three years ago, the Dobbs decision returned the question of abortion to the American people. It was a long-overdue correction to decades of judicial overreach, but the legal debate was never the whole story. The deeper battle has always been cultural. For far too long, women have been forced into a false and heartbreaking choice: keep your child and sacrifice your future or end the life within you and preserve your freedom. That is not liberation. That is a crisis disguised as a choice and it’s time we call it what it is.
If You Want to Empower Women, Let Them Keep Their Tips
As a mom, mentor, and entrepreneur who has spent decades championing women, I’ve learned this: When women rise, so do their communities, and that rise doesn’t come from handouts; it comes from hustle, heart, and hard-earned dollars.
AFPI Legal Demand: Protecting Women’s Rights in Washington Prisons
Why We Sent This Letter: Defending Women’s Sports and Privacy
At the America First Policy Institute’s Center for Litigation, we are committed to ensuring that policies protect the rights, safety, and dignity of all Americans—especially young women and girls who compete in sports. That’s why we sent a letter to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) on February 28, 2025, regarding its Transgender Student-Athlete Policy in light of President Trump’s Executive Order 14201, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”