Politics & Policy

July 7, 2014

On July 3, 2014 Governor Tom Corbett signed HB 1420 into law creating Act 94 of 2014. In layman's terms: In October 2014, all babies born in Pennsylvania birthing facilities will be required to be screened for critical congenital heart defects via pulse oximetry. Congenital heart defects...

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Mary E. Mannix

Health Care MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy

June 30, 2014

Pennsylvania babies need your help today! Please call your Pennsylvania legislator today asking for a concurrence vote on HB 1420 before they recess for the summer. You will be saving lives.

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Mary E. Mannix

Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

June 30, 2014

“Sister, you and your fellow nuns have clearly gone rogue!" -- Stephen Colbert Sister Simone Campbell was 18 years old when she joined the convent and 21 when she took her nun vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Her younger sister and best friend was dying of Hodgkin’s disease. It was the 1960...

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Melissa Regan

Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

June 30, 2014

Today the Supreme Court voted in favor of Hobby Lobby's "religious freedom" to decide not to abide by the Affordable Care Act and deny contraception coverage to their employees.

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Melissa Regan

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Health Care Politics & Policy

June 30, 2014

Whoa. Did you see the terrible news today? The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled today that some bosses can make your birth control decisions for you.

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Immigration Media Library MomsRising Near You MomsVote Politics & Policy

June 27, 2014

I never thought sending a Facebook “Friend Request” could impact me they way it did. One day on my Facebook wall, I noticed an organization called “DREAMers Moms”, so I sent them a friend request. I quickly received a response that they wanted me to come to a meeting in Miami, Florida. I was...

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Jose Antonio Vargas

Politics & Policy

June 27, 2014

We were shocked. We are still shocked. As employees of T-Mobile US, we were deeply disturbed to watch our CEO John Legere launch an expletive-laden presentation about how rival telecommunications companies are “raping” consumers. "These high and mighty duopolists that are raping you for every penny...

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Carolina Figueroa

Politics & Policy

June 26, 2014

To raise a child with the freedom of self-expression is to question the status quo, to raise the general anxiety level at any given moment, to have our parenting - and our child's choices - examined even more minutely than they would be otherwise.

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Rev. Eliza Buchakjian-Tweedy

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care MomsVote Politics & Policy

June 25, 2014

One day in the early 1950s, my father’s folks loaded their kids into the car and took off down a central Indiana road for a picnic. My dad’s mom sat in the front seat, holding three month old Beverly, in her arms. As they turned a corner, an oncoming car smashed into them, killing baby Beverly...

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Roberta Riley

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

June 25, 2014

MAJOR VICTORY! MomsRising.org's top policy priorities & members were prominently featured at the The White House Summit on Working Families--and also in their blog recap of Monday's Summit!

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner