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02/24/12

Last month I reached out for help from fellow moms across the nation. In the summer of 2010, my daughter’s best friend stood in the Gulf with tears streaming down her face as oil washed ashore in Alabama. Saving this region for our children and grandchildren means a lot to those moms who live along...

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Tammy Herrington

02/24/12

I cover the recent furor on Komen, the pink ribbon, and how disassociated our political geography is from the real lives of women. With thanks to Susan Barnett and her wonderful weekly program, 51% http://bit.ly/zsdTtq

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Carla Goldstein

02/24/12

It's Black History Month once again and MomsRising is celebrating with a blog carnival that will bring you a diverse selection of voices and perspectives to deepen our collective appreciation of this time. Some might ask why, in this era of a Black president and televised public funerals of Black...

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Cheryl Contee

Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days

02/23/12

Photo: Mimi Ho, member of Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Association, with her children, her friend's child and their nanny, Xiao Ying, who cares for them. Like the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, Oscar night is a night of American togetherness. On February 26, we'll all be serving up...

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Gayle Kirshenbaum

Paid Family Leave Health Care

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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