Health Care

August 20, 2012

Let's just say, I'm very glad that Congressman Todd Akin is not MY doctor - or any woman's doctor. This weekend, Congressman Akin from Missouri explained his understanding of the chance of pregnancy as a result of a rape the following way: "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try...

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Ashley Boyd

Health Care

August 17, 2012

The Center for Women Policy Studies has published a series of papers called Reproductive Laws for the 21st Century . My contribution is called "She Doesn't Deserve to be Treated Like This": Prisons as Sites of Reproductive Injustice , and I’m excited to share it with the MomsRising community. The...

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Rachel Roth

Environmental Health Health Care

August 16, 2012

Excellent news! Johnson & Johnson has now committed to removing a wide host of known toxic chemicals from their products by 2015. Earlier this year the company committed to removing these unhealthy and dangerous chemicals from baby products, but they now have plans to move past that original promise to include all of their personal care products. This is huge, like really, really huge.

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Michelle Noehren

Health Care

August 16, 2012

The Super 8. Many people are in vacation mindsets right now, so the words "Super 8" may spark images of motels on summer vacation stops. But I'm not talking about a Super 8 motel on a family road trip to the Grand Canyon. Nope. I'm talking about the new Super 8: The 8 new free women's preventative...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Health Care

August 14, 2012

If there was ever any doubt that the U.S. federal budget would claim center-stage in the 2012 presidential race, it vanished with Mitt Romney's selection of House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the GOP Vice Presidential nominee. Although Mitt Romney has emphasized he will run on a Romney budget,...

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Jo Comerford

Environmental Health Health Care

August 8, 2012

Last night I went to a showing of Semper Fi , a shocking documentary about the families of Camp Lejeune who were literally poisoned by contaminated drinking water for 30 years. The reason this topic was of interest to me is because Camp Lejeune is in my state and I’ve been learning about the need...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care Food!

August 1, 2012

Shade your eyes, stretch high-up on your tippy-toes, and look west… A bit farther…past your back yard… Up and over the Rocky Mountains... Past Las Vegas glimmer… Over to the massive, distant, piece of land geographically sandwiched between the Sierra Nevada Mountain range and the Pacific Ocean...

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Kristi Marsh

Health Care

August 1, 2012

By Ashley Mayo, Strategic Engagement Fellow at the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, being a woman just got easier. Today, a new provision of the law requiring insurers to provide women's preventive services without a copay takes effect. For a quick look at what...

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Ashley Wheeland

Health Care Blog Carnivals

August 1, 2012

It's almost too good to believe, but it's true! And all the better because we fought hard for it -- first through the Affordable Care Act's passage, and then when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops objected to free coverage of contraceptives through women's employer-provided health insurance...

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Cynthia Liu

Health Care

July 27, 2012

On July 29, 2012, I’m shaving my head – BALD – with an incredible group of courageous moms to fund life-saving childhood cancer research through the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. I’m shaving my head for my hero and son, Max, and to stand in solidarity with all of the incredibly courageous kids who...

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