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FEBRUARY 13, 2025
We’re fearless when we’re together: Tickets & Sponsorships for Wine, Chocolate & Choice 2025 are NOW AVAILABLE!
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We know these past weeks have been difficult, often filled with anxiety, fear, and uncertainty about what will happen next. The current administration and anti-choice extremists want us to feel isolated and powerless to act. We won’t let them.
When we’re together, we draw strength from our community. We learn from each other and are energized by each other’s commitment to reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy for all. Women Winning has been creating these vital spaces for engagement and activation for times like these, when we need them the most. If you need a space to be fearless, then join us for Wine, Chocolate & Choice. We’re fearless when we’re together.
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2025 Women Winning Training Series: Join us for our New Candidate Training on February 22!
[[link removed]] Join Women Winning for the next event in our Training Series as we gear up for 2025 and beyond!
At our New Candidate Training, you’ll get the lowdown on logistics, insights, and must-knows for a successful campaign! Join us on Saturday, February 22 on Zoom! Secure your spot by registering below!
We can’t wait to work with you in 2025!
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ICYMI: Democrats and Republicans reach deal to end Minnesota House stalemate
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The nearly monthlong impasse that halted business in the Minnesota House ended late Wednesday as Democrats and Republicans reached a deal to get back to work.
House GOP Leader Lisa Demuth, of Cold Spring, will be the chamber’s speaker through 2026 under the deal reached by the two caucuses. Republicans will chair all House committees for the next month while they hold a 67-66 advantage.
A March 11 special election for a safely blue Roseville-area seat, called by Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday, is expected to bring the chamber to a tie. Once the House is evenly divided, Democrats and Republicans will co-chair the committees.
House Democrats last week returned to the State Capitol for the first time this session. They had boycotted legislative proceedings since the session started Jan. 14 to deprive Republicans of the quorum needed to conduct House business. The DFLers held out because they wanted Republicans to agree to share power with the impending special election expected to give the House an even split.
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GOP senators introduce bill to codify Hyde, ban taxpayer funding for abortions
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Republican lawmakers reintroduced a piece of legislation that would ban the use of federal funds for abortions or health coverage that includes abortion this week.
If passed, the bill would essentially codify a decades-old policy called the Hyde Amendment which has banned the use of any federal dollars on abortions since 1977.
There are two caveats, however. The Hyde Amendment does allow for federal funds to be spent on abortions if continuing a pregnancy endangers the life of the mother or if the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.
The reintroduced bill would extend the restrictions to all federal funds and bar abortions from being performed in federal health care facilities or by a federal employee. It would also specify that federal health insurance plans that cover abortion services are not eligible for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.
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USAID’s reproductive health funding has saved millions of lives – now it’s gone
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Last Sunday, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, boasted that he was gutting the federal agency tasked with providing foreign aid to its poorest.
“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” Musk, the tech billionaire head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, posted on his social media platform, X.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was established in 1961 to provide foreign assistance to impoverished countries around the world through food aid and humanitarian and economic development work. It is also one of the world’s largest providers of contraception through its family planning program. According to the Congressional Research Service, the agency’s funding in 2023 was about $40 billion, which represented less than 1 percent of the federal budget.
Beth Schlachter, senior director of U.S. engagement for MSI Reproductive Choices, a global non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides contraception and abortion care, said Musk’s comment made her feel sick.
“You can just hear the cavalier, malicious, cruel approach to it as they’re laughing,” she said, referring to a conversation Musk broadcast earlier in the day on his platform about the cuts. “I can’t get past it. It’s so malicious and disgusting. You have to believe that the cruelty is the point.”
MSI Reproductive Choices doesn’t receive USAID funding, but Schlachter has worked for decades at both the State Department and with NGOs on programs that build up support for sexual and reproductive health rights, maternal care and access to contraception globally. She’s seen the ways USAID funding has saved lives through its family planning initiatives. Now she worries about the immediate fallout for people across the world. She and other experts say women and LGBTQ+ people will face significant and deadly consequences because of an abrupt pause in aid.
“There will be maternal deaths, and there will be unintended pregnancies,” she said.
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Community Resources & Events
📌 Know Your Rights Training with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, and Michelle Mackenzie of Advocates for Human Rights
* Date: Thursday, February 13
* Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
* Location: Zoom
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📌 MUJERES CREADORAS: An art experience to commemorate International Women's Day, led by artist Constanza Carballo in partnership with the Minnesota Latino Museum
* Date: Saturday, March 8
* Time: 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
* Location: Solar Arts Building, 711 NE 15th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55413
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