MomsRising Newsroom

Statement “America’s moms condemn many of the executive orders President Trump has issued in his first days in office, which will lead to less access to health care, expand the spread of disease, embolden discrimination, and increase fear and hardship. His executive orders do nothing to lower costs, make housing and groceries less expensive, or to make child care more affordable, paid family and medical leave more available, reproductive health care more accessible, gun violence less commonplace, or to reverse our devastating maternal health crisis.

News release “The abortion ban our state legislature passed is an atrocity that is undermining the health and endangering the lives of moms and pregnant people in our state. It’s putting people needing care for miscarriages at risk, and creating massive burdens for rural, low-income, working class and other families. Gov.

Statement “Our country’s military families will be healthier and stronger because Congress included the Maintaining our Obligation to Moms who Serve (MOMS) Act in the National Defense Authorization Act both chambers have passed. It will improve the mental health of military moms by supporting a badly needed 5-year pilot program to prevent and treat maternal mental health conditions and bring evidence-based maternal mental health programs into the military’s health care system.

Statement “North Carolina moms are deeply disappointed that the legislators we elected made the terrible decision to override Governor Roy Cooper’s wise and necessary veto of H.B. 10, and make this horrendous, harmful bill our state’s law. This anti-immigrant, anti-education law will cause significant harm to North Carolina moms, families, schools, and our state’s economy. Beginning on December 1, our local sheriffs will be forced to collaborate with U.S.