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April 2, 2024
Statement “The Florida Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to the state’s moms and families by allowing one of the strictest, most cruel abortion bans in the country to take effect 30 days from now. Governor DeSantis and his allies in the state legislature demonstrated once again that they care nothing for moms and families by passing a six-week abortion ban that will now take effect on May 1st, putting the health and lives of moms and other pregnant people at grave risk.
March 29, 2024
Statement “The country’s moms are proud to celebrate trans people this weekend, as the Transgender Day of Visibility approaches on Sunday. Many moms are transgender, are parents to transgender children, and supporters of the transgender community. We wholeheartedly support the lives and contributions of trans people and want everyone to be able to contribute fully to our society and to live without facing discrimination, hate or violence.
March 26, 2024
Statement Moms applaud the Biden/Harris administration and Small Business Administration (SBA) for the actions announced yesterday to support small businesses that offer child care for working families.
March 25, 2024
Statement “America’s moms are outraged and terrified that the same U.S. Supreme Court that unleashed stunning levels of hardship and chaos on our nation by overturning Roe v. Wade now threatens to take away our access to medication abortion. Continued access to mifepristone, which has been used safely and effectively in the United States for more than two decades and is the only option many of us have left for abortion, is essential to the health and wellbeing of moms, pregnant people, and their families. America’s moms are counting on the U.S.
March 23, 2024
Statement “The FY24 federal budget Congress passed late last night contains some very welcome and badly needed advances, but in other ways lets moms and families down. Moms applaud the nearly $1 billion increase for child care and Head Start, which is a significant win not only for moms and families but also for businesses and our economy. Moms thank U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) for prioritizing child care and early childhood, families, child care providers, and businesses.
March 18, 2024
Statement “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.  
March 12, 2024
Statement “The Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal the Biden/Harris administration released yesterday is music to the ears of America’s moms. It is designed to build the kind of care infrastructure, with paid family and medical leave and quality, affordable child care and disability and elder care, that our country urgently needs and that would finally set up moms, families, businesses and our economy to thrive.
March 12, 2024
Statement “Today is Equal Pay Day 2024, the day that is a painful reminder of how badly women and moms in our country continue to be underpaid and undervalued. Women in the United States are paid a paltry 78 cents for every dollar paid to men, when looking at all working people – those who work full- and part-time, and year-round as well as part-year, according to 2022 U.S. Census data. Women who work full-time, year-round are paid just 84 cents on the dollar paid to full-time, year-round employed men. For moms and women of color, the wage gaps are even larger and even more shameful.
March 8, 2024
Statement “America’s moms are thrilled and tremendously relieved that Congress has included full funding for WIC in the bipartisan budget bill it completed work on today. We look forward to President Biden signing it into law, which will avert the catastrophe the looming shortfall would have created, with babies going hungry, new moms going without breastfeeding support, and toddlers going without nutritious food.
March 7, 2024
Statement “In his powerful and pointed State of the Union speech tonight, President Biden lifted the policies that matter most to moms.

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