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Have an Appetite for Equity? Join Us at Our Healthy Foods Convening

March 28, 2012
With diabetes and obesity rates still on the rise, CPEHN will be tackling one of the leading causes of these chronic conditions at our spring convenings, An Appetite for Equity: Ensuring Access to Healthy Foods . Making healthy foods more available can greatly improve health in California’s low-...
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Ellen Wu
Health Care

Dirty Little Secret

March 28, 2012
The fact is that one in eight women suffer from postpartum depression. No mother should ever feel like this is her “dirty little secret.”
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Michelle Noehren
Health Care Immigration

The War on Women and the War on Immigrants Collide

March 28, 2012
A few weeks ago, the right-wing Daily Caller ran a piece with the sensational headline “Transgender hormone treatments, abortion access for detained illegals irks congressman.” It’s about House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith’s opposition to humane treatment of immigrants detained by our government...
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Tramonte Lynn
Health Care

Your Body, Your Decisions – This Means You, Moms!

March 27, 2012
Recently, a mother in South Carolina reached out to the ACLU for help. She was pregnant, and although she had had two prior cesarean surgeries, she wished to attempt a “trial of labor,” that is, to give birth naturally, rather than having a scheduled cesarean surgery. The mother’s wish made sense...
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Hoodies and Miniskirts

March 27, 2012
Last month, an armed Sanford, FL neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman followed, confronted and shot Trayon Martin AFTER being told by a 911 dispatcher to stay in his car until police arrive. Trayvon Martin was on his way home from buying candy at a store during halftime of the NBA All-Star game...
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Monifa Bandele

All Our Problems Solved…Or Not

March 27, 2012
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Journalist Liza Mundy sees a time, in the very near future, when women will earn more than men and the economic shift will transform our mating, marriage and motherhood patterns. In The...
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Valerie Young

The Affordable Care Act Goes to the Supreme Court

March 26, 2012
Today, the Supreme Court began arguments about the constitutionality of provisions within the Affordable Care Act. Watch our short video explaining the legal challenges, why we think the law is constitutional, and what women could lose if the law is struck down. http://youtu.be/PxVWrlUf4Bc Also,...
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Thao Nguyen
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3 Keys to Making Unlimited Vacation Policies Actually Work

March 26, 2012
The concept of unlimited vacation or “no vacation policy” is becoming a popular idea . Large companies like IBM, HubSpot, and Netflix have kicked the standard two-week vacation policy to the curb. Over the years, we’ve worked with many organization, big and small, to help them implement a Results-...
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Cali Ressler
Environmental Health

I just want her to be happy

March 26, 2012
I remember the moment I became a mother. It was like lightening and thunder inside my body, and then, suddenly and unexpectedly, a delightful soft and smooth swoosh. And there she was. Like every mother, I wanted my child to be happy. That was 24 years ago, and instinctively, I knew that happiness...
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Laura Musikanski
Health Care

The Affordable Care Act Helps More than Half of U.S. Kids Access Preventive Care

March 23, 2012
Yeah -- no copay for well child visits! By Elisabeth Burak, Georgetown University Center for Children and Families As some Say Ahhh! readers know, I recently moved across the country with my husband and toddler. It's been more than three months, but we're still searching our new place for clothes...
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