The Best Father’s Day Gift is Paid Leave
This Father’s Day, it’s time to talk about how critical it is for men to take paid leave. When we had our baby last year, my husband’s parental leave was crucial for my physical recovery and for our ability to bond as a family.
10 Reasons Jonathan Berry’s Nomination is a Threat to Women
Jonathan Berry, a key architect of the labor chapter of Project 2025, represents a significant threat to gender equity and civil rights in America. His nomination to serve as solicitor of labor – the Department of Labor’s chief legal officer responsible for...
HBCU Students Like Me Are Losing Opportunities Under the Trump Administration’s DEI Rollbacks
The Trump administration’s assault on DEI is not just an ideological campaign, it is a structural, financial, and existential threat to Black students and HBCUs. It’s already cost us opportunities. And if this continues, it will cost us generations of progress.
NEWS: Trump admin revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would revoke guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions for women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.
Medicaid Matters for You
Medicaid gives people access to essential health care and supports when they need it most, but enormous Republican-proposed cuts would jeopardize the health of over 70 million people, including children, pregnant people, older adults, people with disabilities and people with low incomes. As we look ahead to the 60th anniversary of the Social Security Amendments on July 30, 2025, more commonly known as the Medicare and Medicaid Act, we reflect on the importance of this program to people nationwide.
Making Democracy Work for Women
Women should have the power and agency to decide what kind of life they want to live, and the opportunity, access, and economic means to pursue it. But the Trump Administration is seeking to advance an alternative agenda: that the best way to create a prosperous America is to sacrifice the progress of millions of women in the workforce and at home.
Medicaid Matters for My Husband’s Patients
Throughout this spring, the National Partnership is highlighting the importance of Medicaid in the lives of our staff and their loved ones, proudly proclaiming Medicaid Matters. In this blog post, we highlight our colleague Sarah’s husband, Dr. Albert Coombs III, DMD, who highlights a front tooth, a full smile, and the power of Medicaid.
NEWS: Abortion stopped in Missouri again in the wake of state Supreme Court ruling
Planned Parenthood halted abortions in Missouri on Tuesday after the state’s top court ordered new rulings in the tumultuous legal saga over a ban that voters struck down last November.
Women & Birthing People in Border Communities Face Escalating Attacks on Health Care Access Under the Trump Administration
Women and birthing people living in communities along the U.S.-Mexico border face persistent barriers to accessing the care they need, and the Trump Administration and Republican policymakers’ agenda is further exacerbating these challenges. Policies like border militarization and cuts to public health funding will worsen access to comprehensive care, including critical primary, maternal, and reproductive health care services.
Trump’s War on Civil Servants Is Hurting College Grads, Too
While the nation prepared for Inauguration Day, I was glued to my phone waiting for a fellowship decision to work on disability-inclusive international development. Instead, USAID was shut down.
Medicaid Matters for My Sister TJ
Medicaid provides essential health coverage to mothers, older women, women with disabilities and women with low incomes when they need it most. Medicaid matters for women across the country – including my sister TJ.
NEWS: A brain-dead woman’s pregnancy raises questions about Georgia’s abortion law
Adriana Smith, a 30 year-old nurse and mother, was about nine weeks pregnant in February when doctors declared her brain dead after she suffered a medical emergency. But Smith’s mother, April Newkirk, told Atlanta TV station WXIA that doctors at Emory University Hospital have been keeping her organs functioning since then until the fetus can be delivered, citing Georgia’s law banning most abortions…
