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Statement

Moms Applaud Biden/Harris Executive Order to Improve Research Into Women’s Health

March 18, 2024
Maternal Health, Reproductive Justice, Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the White House Executive Order on Advancing Women’s Health Research and Innovation, issued today:

“At this time when women’s health care is under unprecedented, devastating attack, America’s moms applaud the Executive Order to Advance Women’s Health Research and Innovation, which the Biden/Harris administration issued today to improve our knowledge about women’s health across our lifespans. We are especially grateful for the emphasis on closing gaps in knowledge about health issues affecting women of color, older women, moms, and women with disabilities, whose health and other needs have been neglected for much too long.  

“President Biden is right that it’s time to pioneer the next generation of discoveries in women’s health and to develop tools to prevent, diagnose, and treat conditions that affect women uniquely, disproportionately, or differently. We commend the measures to put women’s health front and center as medical research proposals are evaluated; increase women’s participation in clinical trials; address health disparities and inequities affecting women; and galvanize research to improve women’s experiences during menopause and perimenopause.

“Now, moms are counting on Congress to make the transformative investments that will realize the promise this visionary blueprint holds for improving health for all women in this country.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.