Health Care

February 28, 2012

I’m a mother of four and currently I’m pregnant with my fifth child (a baby girl). With each pregnancy I have had many new questions arise concerning my little one growing inside of me. The main question, I had throughout my first pregnancy was are these Braxton Hicks contractions or actual labor...

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Canielle Preston

Health Care

February 28, 2012

This piece was written and submitted by Erin Wyner, MD, a family physician and proud member of the National Physicians Alliance . As a physician, I am deeply concerned about the extreme opposition from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to important new rules requiring employers that provide...

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Jean Silver-Isenstadt, MD, PhD

Paid Family Leave Health Care

February 23, 2012

A few weeks ago, we asked MomsRising members to sign our petition urging Congress to support paid family leave, and the response was huge. Nearly 10,000 people signed the petition so far. We want to keep up the MOMentum and get to 15,000! Click here to sign the petition (And if you’ve already...

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Ruth Martin

Health Care

February 23, 2012

During one of the recent Republican Presidential debates in Florida, a woman in the audience shared her story and asked a simple question: My name is Lynn Frazier and I live here in Jacksonville. I found myself unemployed for the first time in 10 years and unable to afford health care benefits...

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Ashley Boyd

Health Care

February 23, 2012

Over and over we see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops confuse the right to exercise their religion with a right to impose their religion on Americans who don’t share it. This is not a subtle difference. And, as Bill Moyers points out in the context of their intransigence on access to birth...

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Barbara Coombs Lee

Health Care

February 23, 2012

Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user timojazz Great news! Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced last week that the Affordable Care Act has provided approximately 54 million Americans with at least one new free preventive service in 2011 through their private health insurance...

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Claire Moshenberg

Open Flexible Work Health Care Paid Family Leave

February 21, 2012

In the 1970s, after it became illegal to discriminate based on race, some employers responded by imposing high school education requirements for blue-collar jobs. Today, employers who want to keep women out of “men’s jobs” do something similar: they wait until workers get pregnant, and then deny...

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Joan C. Williams

Health Care

February 18, 2012

XXL Magazine has published a video of a 45-year-old rapper encouraging teenage boys to force themselves on underage girls. The graphic monologue is disturbing. So is the willingness of Harris Publications, which owns XXL, to give this kind of dangerous rhetoric a platform. The ColorOfChange...

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Dani McClain

Health Care

February 17, 2012

My jaw dropped. Could I really be seeing a picture of the "expert" witnesses on birth control testifying before Congress, and ….they were all men?! [1] What year are we in anyway? This is beyond out-of-touch. It's downright offensive. With 1.86 children in the average U.S. family, it’s clear that...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Care Open Flexible Work Environmental Health

February 15, 2012

Welcome to Wellness Wednesdays! Join us on the MomsRising blog every Wednesday for tips, expert advice, and the latest news on wellness related issues, including: Breastfeeding Health care Paid Sick Days ...and so much more! Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user Mallu2007 It's going to be great: Look...

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Claire Moshenberg