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02/23/12

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

02/23/12

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

02/23/12

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

02/23/12

Recently MedStar Georgetown University Hospital became the first maternity facility in the nation’s capital (in fact the entire Washington Metropolitan area) to achieve elite designation as a Baby Friendly Hospital . As president of the D.C. Breastfeeding Coalition, I applaud this achievement. I...

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Sahira Long, MD, FAAP, IBCLC

Health Care

02/23/12

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

Environmental Health

02/22/12

This might be a face kids put on to make their friends laugh, but it's never a face parents want to see for real. Respiratory illness is rampant in this country, with more than 7 million kids suffering from asthma. Yet, last week, pediatricians, nurses and families across the country had to stop...

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Sarah Francis

Environmental Health

02/22/12

Photo credit: Photo by Flickr user epSos.de Trying to avoid toxic chemicals? Take a survey of the different spaces you occupy every day. We've covered ways to reduce toxic chemicals in your home and in your office . Today we're covering another common space: Your car. Try these tips to reduce toxic...

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Claire Moshenberg

02/21/12

Editor's Note: This story originally appeared at MyBrownBaby . -E.B. It was a no-brainer for me: All the books said I should breastfeed my baby because it was best for her that she would be stronger, faster, smarter, better for it. And so I rushed out and bought myself a fancy Medella breast pump...

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Denene Millner

02/21/12

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in Ebony magazine. Many thanks to Dream Hampton for permission to re-publish. -E.B. That the Latin definition of triumvirate translates literally into "of three men" hasn't stopped my favorite triumvirate from being three Bessies: three very special...

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dream hampton

Environmental Health

02/21/12

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Last week’s findings of arsenic in organic brown rice syrup may be even more frightening to parents than last year’s discovery of the cancer-causing substance in apple juice . That’s because organic...

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Rachel Sarnoff