Health Care

July 8, 2015

Today, Maine joins 21 states and the District of Columbia in enacting legal protections for pregnant women in prison and jail with a statute that bans shackling during labor and childbirth, limits shackling at all other times, and also respects women’s privacy and informs them of their rights. LD...

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Rachel Roth

Health Care

July 2, 2015

This past Sunday I joined other dozens of mothers for San Diego Day to Normalize Breastfeeding at Kellogg Park in beautiful La Jolla. Yes, it’s the day to “normalize” breastfeeding, not to “protect” breastfeeding. I used to believe that breastfeeding is something that needs to be protected, until a recent trip to Taiwan. I called the island home for 20 years, but I have not visited the “home” for a long time. I was surprised by what I saw during this trip.

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To-wen Tseng

Health Care

July 1, 2015

Woop! Woop! Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that eligible healthcare customers—including 450,000 North Carolinans—can continue to receive financial assistance in buying health coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act. This is great news! While those North Carolinians can now breathe a...

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Felicia Burnett

Food! Health Care Politics & Policy

July 1, 2015

Science Writer Maryn McKenna gave an excellent TedTalk about the looming antibiotics crisis, how we got here and what comes next. This is what I learned.

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Anya Vanecek

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

July 1, 2015

After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act decision, we need to keep the healthcare victories rolling by bringing our powerful voices to Congress! Right now, negotiations over the federal budget are starting to heat up and some members of Congress are trying to quietly make major cuts to the critically important health coverage that Medicaid provides to kids, women, and families. We can’t let this happen!

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Elyssa Schmier

Health Care Politics & Policy

June 29, 2015

Maine could soon become the first state in 2015 to limit the shackling of pregnant women in prison. The bill against shackling is a priority for the Maine Alliance for Reproductive Freedom and an integral part of the ACLU of Maine ‘s focus on criminal justice reform. Twenty-one other states and the...

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Rachel Roth

Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

June 28, 2015

I still cannot believe that I am married in 50 states. When my wife and I married, nearly nine years ago, we did so in the only place where it was legal. It was still a really big deal when the pastor said, "By the power vested in me by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts..." And today the echo of...

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Rev. Eliza Buchakjian-Tweedy

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

June 26, 2015

There are major Congressional budget negotiations and threats coming our way, especially targeting Medicaid and healthcare. Read our Q & A to learn more about what is happening!

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Elyssa Schmier

Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

June 25, 2015

We won! The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor the Affordable Care Act , keeping the financial assistance that keeps health insurance affordable under King v. Burwell! Over 10,000 MomsRising members like YOU signed on to our People’s Brief to stand with the millions of Americans whose healthcare was...

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Jeannina Perez

Health Care

June 19, 2015

I joined The Walk NC to DC because I was frustrated. Despite being in the midst of a health care crisis with more than one million uninsured Texans in the coverage gap and hospital systems under enormous strain, the Texas legislature did not even discuss Medicaid expansion during its last...

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