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…
The New Jim ‘Bro’
Americans are witnessing in real-time a full-throated assault on freedom and democracy, perhaps the most aggressive roll-back of civil rights protections in generations. Using loosely defined notions of “government efficiency,” Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their new...
NEWS: RFK Jr orders mifepristone review as anti-abortion groups push for ban
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, said on Wednesday that he had directed the FDA to review the regulations around the abortion pill mifepristone.
Medicaid Matters for Me (Lorena’s Story)
From childhood to early adulthood I received my health insurance through Passport Health Plan, a Kentucky Medicaid insurance provider. Medicaid is the largest provider of health coverage for children in the United States – covering approximately 40 percent of children nationwide. Proposed cuts to Medicaid threaten access to this vital source of health care.
CMS’s Transforming Maternal Health Model: A Roadmap For States
CMS’s recently launched Transforming Maternal Health model is a comprehensive framework for addressing the maternal health crisis.
NEWS: Inside conservatives’ strategy to curb abortion pill access
The nation’s most influential anti-abortion groups have a new plan to roll back access to the procedure for millions of Americans in what they’re calling the “biggest opportunity for the pro-life movement” since toppling Roe v. Wade.
