Thanks to your signatures, 7.5 months pregnant Kandace Washington was released from jail on bond. Now, your donation is urgently needed. We are fundraising the $1,100 to cover the court and jail fees that it took to free Kandace. Court and jail fees disproportionately prey on low-income communities of color, further perpetuating cycles of poverty.

Raising Constituent Voices To Protect Health Care MomsRising’s Health Care Team has been working hard since the November 2016 election to help protect and advance access to health care by activating our membership to speak out on the importance of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid. During the...

By: Dr. Christina Han As a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and a mother of two young children, I have experienced pregnancy from both sides of the examination table. In my clinical work, I diagnose and manage complications of pregnancy every day, and frequently hear mothers exclaim, “I just want...

Within days of coming back to work as a Frontier Airlines pilot after having my first child, who was still nursing, I got an extremely painful breast infection. Despite doing my best to pump regularly between flights in airport bathrooms and at my hotel on overnight trips, I still got mastitis, and...