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Urge CA Legislators to Pass the Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act!

Access to health care coverage is a lifesaver for families and our economy. We are working to ensure every family has access to quality affordable health care coverage because no one should have to choose between paying for groceries or housing and paying their medical bills.

People are often surprised to hear that even a physician can end up on Medicaid...but I’m a great example that it can happen to anyone. I’m 32 years old, married, with two small children and I am a family physician. In January of this year, right at the beginning of a new plan year and new...Read more
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Surviving After a Stillbirth

01/13/20
In July 2011, we faced every expectant parents’ worst nightmare when when we learned that our unborn daughter had died. From the moment that I found out that Autumn was stillborn, my life drastically veered off course. I have since spent the past eight years trying to find my way back on track. I’...
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Debbie Haine Vijayvergiya
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Childcare & Early Education Food! Health Care

LAST #5Actions of 2019!

12/26/19
It has been an historic week. Thank you to all who joined our call demanding that the U.S. Congress protect our elections and our democracy by holding President Trump accountable for his abuse of power and his undeniable obstruction of the congressional investigation. Read our press release on...
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Karen Showalter
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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Gun Safety Health Care Immigration MomsVote

2019 Year In Review: MOMentum Wins!

12/15/19
From start to finish, 2019 has been a year of rip-roaring, unstoppable, joyful MOMentum! Just to name a few of the major wins we accomplished together this year: MomsRising leads a coalition that won commitments from major national and regional banks to quit financing private prisons, including the...
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Anita Sarah Jackson
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Health Care

Fighting For Xiomara: A Mom's Story

12/12/19
This is the story of Elena Hung, longtime MomsRising supporter and co-founder of Little Lobbyists , an organization advocating for kids with complex medical needs and disabilities. *** I am Elena and I am a mom to two amazing kids who are the joy of my life. My daughter, Xiomara, was born with...
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Anita Sarah Jackson
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Health Care Maternal Justice

Maternal Health and Abortion Restrictions: How Lack of Access to Quality Care Is Harming Black Women

12/11/19
What do rising maternal mortality rates and restrictive abortion laws have in common, women of color are disproportionately impacted. The National Partnership for Women & Families and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Justice Agenda examine the connections in a new issue brief.
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National Partnership for Women & Families
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States Can Boost WIC, Improve Outcomes for Low-Income Women, Young Children

12/09/19
State policymakers can do more to ensure that low-income women and young children participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Just over half of those eligible currently participate, despite WIC’s well-documented role in improving birth, diet,...
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Zoe Neuberger

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Tell the Trump Administration: Stop sabotaging our health care system!

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President Trump has been subverting the democratic process and working to reverse the progress and gains we’ve made on health care coverage in recent years every chance he gets.

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Urge CA Legislators to Pass the Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/10689/?source=action">Urge CA Legislators to Pass the Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act!</a>

Urge CA lawmakers to prioritize the health and lives of Black mothers in our state by supporting the Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act.

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Urge CA Legislators to Pass the Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act!

Share your SNAP and Medicaid experience with MomsRising!

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MomsRising wants to hear from YOU about how work-related requirements in order to access SNAP, Medicaid, and housing assistance would affect your family now or when you were on the programs in the past. Tell us your story!

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