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OCTOBER 24, 2024
THIS WEEKEND: Door Knock for Janelle Calhoun & Rep. Brion Curran!
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Every year, Women Winning hosts the Action Series leading up to the General Election that supports our endorsed champions of reproductive freedom. With power from everyday people in the community, we knock doors and raise money for our incredible candidates to give them an extra boost before Election Day!
THIS WEEKEND
SD 36 Door Knock with Janelle Calhoun & Rep. Brion Curran
Saturday, October 26 - 12PM
*UPDATED LOCATION*
DFL Little Canada Action Center at the
International Union of Painters & Allied Trades District Council 82
3205 Country Dr, Shoreview, MN 55126
UPCOMING
SD 45 Door Knock & Rally with Kelly Morrison, Ann Johnson Stewart,
Tracey Breazeale, & Rep. Patty Acomb
Monday, November 4 - 2:30PM
CD3 DFL Office
3319 County Rd 101
Wayzata, MN 55391
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Check out the 2024 Women Winning Voter Guide!
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We know Women Winning supporters are busy people, and with so many races and candidates, it can be challenging to know which ones will stand up for abortion access and Reproductive Freedom.
That’s why we put together the Women Winning 2024 Voter Guide–to help you plan ahead and prepare to make your voice heard at your polling place!
Our Voter Guide covers races up and down the ballot from your local School Board to (our future Madam) President of the United States!
Check it out and support our incredible Women Winning candidates in your area!
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2nd District GOP candidate Joe Teirab’s work with crisis pregnancy center scrutinized
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Second District Congressional candidate Joe Teirab’s work with a crisis pregnancy center is drawing new scrutiny because its adoption agency works only with married, heterosexual couples.
Teirab, a Republican challenging DFL U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, joined the board of directors of New Life Family Services in 2022, according to tax filings. He highlighted the organization he describes as a pregnancy resource center during the campaign because it helped his mother when she unexpectedly became pregnant with him.
“I’m only here today because of the work of that organization,” Teirab said when Craig brought up the group during recent debates. Crisis pregnancy centers counsel women facing unplanned pregnancies away from abortion to other options.
Craig and her wife, Cheryl, have four sons, and Craig has spoken about the struggles she faced adopting because she is gay. Craig released two campaign ads featuring the sons of gay couples who characterize Teirab as out of touch.
“Here in the Second District, we believe that people should have the freedom to marry and build a family with the person they love,” Craig said in a statement. “To try to restrict that fundamental freedom is way out-of-touch with people across this district.”
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White House aims to eliminate out-of-pocket spending on birth control for most Americans
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President Joe Biden’s administration on Monday announced a plan that would eliminate out-of-pocket expenses for most birth control for a majority of Americans.
Officials called the proposed rule, which affects people with private health insurance, the most significant expansion of contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in over a decade. They estimate it could benefit 52 million women of reproductive age.
“For the first time ever, women would be able to obtain over-the-counter contraception without a prescription at no additional cost, and health plans would have to cover even more prescribed contraceptives without cost sharing,” said Jennifer Klein, assistant to the president and director of the White House Gender Policy Council, in a call with reporters.
The proposed rule would alleviate a significant financial burden for millions of Americans. The 2010 health law already required private health plans to cover at least one form of birth control for beneficiaries without any out-of-pocket costs. Research shows that the benefit has contributed to higher use of contraception, lower health care expenditures by women, and may have helped lower rates of unintended pregnancy.
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Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows
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In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects.
Earlier research – spurred by a CNN investigative report - found that infant mortality spiked in Texas after a 6-week abortion ban took effect in 2021, and experts say the new data suggests that the impacts of the bans and restrictions enacted by some states post-Dobbs have been large enough to affect broader trends.
“This is evidence of a national ripple effect, regardless of state-level status,” said Dr. Parvati Singh, an assistant professor of epidemiology with The Ohio State University College of Public Health and lead author of the new study.
In the new paper, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, Singh and co-author Dr. Maria Gallo, a professor of epidemiology and associate dean of research with the Ohio State University College of Public Health, compared infant mortality rates for the 18 months following the Dobbs decision against historical trends.
They found that infant mortality was higher than usual in the US in several months after the Dobbs decision and never dropped to rates that were lower than expected.
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