With the holiday season underway, parents are starting to add "prevent any cuts to Medicaid" to their holiday wish-list. The looming fiscal cliff and related decisions about the budget and deficit are creating an opportunity for some in Congress to propose long-term changes to Medicaid that would lead to drastic cuts. Moms-to-be and moms with children who were born premature need to take special note as these decisions could profoundly and negatively affect our families' health and economic security. My daughter Gracie was born at 26 weeks for reasons that are unknown. She was just 2 lbs and...

Recently, MomsRising sent an email out about the issue of Equal Pay in the workplace and I responded with my experience. To my surprise, I was contacted a couple weeks ago with a request for more information, which led to the biggest surprise and honor of all. I was asked by the National Women’s Law Center to come testify before the House Democratic Steering Committee about my experience with unfair and inequitable pay. To be honest, I was a bit nervous at first. I had fears that I might experience the hateful backlash that Sandra Fluke did when she testified about contraception and I had to...