Run Women Run will endorse candidates supported by a majority vote of the members of Run Women Run's Advisory Board. Run Women Run can endorse in local, state and federal races. Run Women Run is a statewide PAC and can only give money in statewide races and certain local and school board races.

Candidate Endorsements:

• In a race selected for endorsement, when a pro-choice candidate challenges a pro-choice incumbent, RWR will endorse the pro-choice incumbent seeking re-election if the incumbent’s voting record meets our criteria.
• Endorsements are for the current election cycle only.  Previously endorsed candidates must apply for endorsement each time they run for office.
• Challengers or candidates for open seats must complete the Candidate Questionnaire and her answers must be 100% pro-choice.
• A candidate whose voting record demonstrates support for our issues will be given priority over candidates who do not have that track record.
• The candidate must be credible and have a good chance of winning.
• In very limited circumstances, and only in open seats, dual endorsements are possible where there is more than one candidate who is pro-choice based on our criteria.
• Run Women Run is non-partisan in its endorsements.
• Failing a majority vote of support or oppose, the policy position will be "No Position."
• In elections in which there are only male candidates or in which a woman candidate is anti-choice and the male candidate is pro-choice, Run Women Run will make no endorsement.

Pro Choice Criteria:

To be considered pro-choice, an incumbent or challenger must at a minimum:

• Support the terms of Roe v. Wade and oppose any attempt to overturn Roe;
• Support public funding of abortion services, prenatal care, family planning, emergency contraception, and other reproductive health care services for all eligible women and all individuals who rely on the government for their health care services;
• Support the rights of minors to confidential family planning, abortion, prenatal care, and sexually transmitted infection screening and treatment services;
• Support comprehensive, age-appropriate, medically accurate sexuality and HIV/AIDS education in public schools that is medically accurate and free of racial, ethnic and gender bias; and, in addition;
• Support requiring the provision of, or referral for, reproductive healthcare services by any healthcare entity that receives public funding for providing healthcare services;
• Support inclusion of all reproductive healthcare services, including abortion, in any healthcare reform plan; and
• Support enactment of laws, and enforcement of existing laws, that protect reproductive healthcare providers, their staff and patients, and their families from the ongoing campaign of violence, intimidation, and harassment being waged against them.
• Oppose parental notification requirements

How to Seek Run Women Run's Endorsement

Candidates seeking Run Women Run’s endorsement may be personally interviewed as determined by the Candidate Research and Endorsement Committee. Candidate responses to the questionnaires will be held in confidence; the responses of the individual candidates will not be made public.

Candidates are encouraged to download and complete Run Women Run's Endorsement Questionnaire (PDF)  and (Word) and return it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , chair of Run Women Run's Candidate Research and Endorsement Committee.