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12/19/16

I always wanted to become a mother. I dreamed of taking prenatal yoga classes and wearing cute pregnancy t-shirts. I craved waddling around town with my very own pregnancy belly. But for me, and one out of every seven U.S. women, pregnancy and the first year postpartum was anything but rainbows and...

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Maureen Fura

Maternal Justice

12/16/16

International rates of maternal morbidity have been decreasing, however in the United States it's a different story. Pregnancy leads to the deaths of over 600 women each year in the US and US maternal mortality is at the worst it's been for 15 years. For black women, the outcomes are even worse,...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Politics & Policy

12/16/16

The hugely over-budget F-35 fighter jet program recently returned to the headlines when President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that “The F-35 program and cost is out of control. Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th.”

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Marian Wright Edelman

Breastfeeding Family Economic Security MomsRising MomsRising Near You Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

12/16/16

We're building MOMentum in Washington on paid family and medical leave -- and we need YOU! Click here to RSVP to join our "Mom-In" in Olympia on January 10th to launch the 2017 campaign for paid family leave! What’s a “Mom In"!?! Well, it’s when moms, and anyone who has ever had a mom, come...

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Maggie Humphreys

Health Care

12/16/16

My name is Julie Walters, and two years ago I wrote to you as a MomsRising volunteer about my daughter, Violet, who has a rare, life-threatening health condition that causes her to have hundreds of seizures. Before healthcare reform, there was a limit on Violet’s health coverage. Now there’s not...

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Julie Walters

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Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

12/13/16

Donald Trump became President-Elect because he prevailed in the Electoral College, but Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2.6 million votes . In other words, the American People did not give Donald Trumpa mandate to enact an extremist agenda aimed at destroying some of our most...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security MomsRising Near You Open Flexible Work

12/13/16

Childcare. It’s a topic that is always top of mind for mothers as we want someone to care for our kids like we do. Our questions and concerns never ease up and finding quality, affordable childcare is one of the biggest struggles today for families. It’s a logistical and emotional rollercoaster to...

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Marlene Mejia Weiss

Health Care

12/13/16

Maya, my client, is wading through some swampy waters with a nonprofit she’s invested a huge amount of time, energy and money in. Active on the board for more than 12 years, she can clearly see all the challenges that the group is facing and it’s easy to come up with a list of all the things that...

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Renee Trudeau

Environmental Health Gun Safety Health Care MomsRising

12/12/16

Today, MomsRising, Girls for Gender Equity, w omen, trans and gender non-conforming New Yorkers anchored a presser at City Hall to call on Council to pass the Right To Know Act. I n communities across the city, women and trans* and gender non-conforming New Yorkers face gender-specific humiliation...

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Diarra Diouf

Gun Safety Maternal Justice

12/12/16

In April 2015, we witnessed one of the worst videos of police murder ever captured on a cell phone. An unarmed Walter Scott was shot 8 times in the back while running away from South Carolina Police Officer Michael Slager. To further add to this harrowing situation, Office Slager is seen planting...

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S. Nadia Hussain