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APRIL 10, 2025
Early Access Sponsorships are NOW AVAILABLE for the Women Winning Annual Luncheon on Monday, June 2nd in Minneapolis!
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Gather with us for a powerful morning of celebration, solidarity, and action as we honor pro-choice champions and uplift the mission and vision of Women Winning.
A limited number of Presidential, Congressional and Gubernatorial sponsorships are now available. This is an early access opportunity for our strongest supporters to secure their tables today. We expect the Luncheon to sell out, so act now in order to be a part of this incredible event!
Community is needed now more than ever, and we hope you will be a part of ours at the 43rd Annual Luncheon.
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A Supreme Court case about abortion could destroy Medicaid
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Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is one of the most straightforward cases the Supreme Court will hear this year. It involves a federal law that requires every state’s Medicaid program to ensure that “any individual eligible for medical assistance” may obtain that care “from any institution, agency, community pharmacy, or person, qualified to perform the service or services required.”
Thus, Medicaid patients, and not the state, clearly have a right to choose their own health providers, with only one exception. The provider must be “qualified,” which, as the federal appeals court that heard this case explained, means that the provider is “professionally competent” to provide the care that the patient seeks.
Nevertheless, South Carolina, along with several other states, attempted to exclude Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program in violation of this statute. The reason, of course, involves abortion.
In 2018, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster issued an executive order forbidding “abortion clinics” from being paid to provide care to Medicaid patients. Though the state is permitted to ban abortion outright under the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), South Carolina permits abortions up to the sixth week of pregnancy.
But the state is not allowed, under the Medicaid statute at the heart of Kerr, to prevent Medicaid patients from choosing Planned Parenthood for non-abortion-related care — at least as long as Planned Parenthood’s providers are competent to provide this care. And the state admits in its brief that it did not cut off Planned Parenthood because it believes that its doctors are professionally incompetent. According to that brief, Planned Parenthood could “restore Medicaid funding if it stops performing abortions — but it has chosen not to do so.”
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Hope Walz never planned for TikTok fame. Now her platform inspires change.
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Hope Walz had no intention of becoming a social media sensation when she first whipped out her phone to shoot a video with her brother, Gus. A few months ago, the Walz siblings—children of former Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz—were headed back to their home state of Minnesota. Their father and his running mate, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, had just lost the 2024 presidential election. And Hope Walz wanted to post an update.
From the front seat of a car, the pair described what it was like to drive without a Secret Service detail for the first time in months. “We’re finally free,” Gus said from the driver’s seat. “I would not describe it like that,” Hope replied. “It is a little weird, but it does feel freeing.” “We’re going to be okay everyone,” she added, before posting the video to TikTok.
After spending months on the campaign trail with her dad, and watching Donald Trump and JD Vance clinch the White House, Walz was ready to return to her everyday life in Montana, where she’d settled after graduating college in 2023. Instead, the video she posted in the aftermath of the election quickly amassed more than 400,000 views. And her next video, breaking down her post-election thoughts, garnered 1 million. Now, Walz is navigating her newfound public platform while trying to map out a future career in public service—a decision inspired by her time on the campaign.
TikTok fame was never part of the plan, said Walz, who now has more than 400,000 followers and 4.2 million total likes on the social media platform. Prior to the election, all of her social media accounts were private. And despite being actively involved in campaign efforts, Walz said, she was urged by staffers to avoid posting until after the election was over.
“I didn’t think I was going to start posting on TikTok,” Walz said. “But then I’m like, ‘Okay people are pretty distraught over this. I should maybe say something.’ And then it kind of just went from there.”
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Anti-Abortion advocacy is rising on college campuses
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Right-wing groups have long seen universities across the U.S. as bastions of the left, reflective of the typical leftward skew of youth voting blocks. But anti-abortion advocacy groups have a small—and growing—presence on college campuses.
Public support for legal abortion has slightly increased since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, according to the Pew Research Center, and a majority of Americans have steadily reported supporting legal abortion for several years. Despite this, many on-campus anti-abortion groups said they saw a strong increase in activity after the fall of Roe.
Take Georgetown University’s Right to Life Chapter. The club was “bare bones” in 2021, according to its event coordinator, Leah Raymond, but it has worked its way up to a membership of around 80 people. Raymond said the group is now flourishing.
“Membership is growing,” Raymond said. “There are just more conservative students willing to show their face.”
It’s a trend at other universities, too. In the past academic year, Princeton University’s Pro-Life club has grown as well, reaching more than 80 members, making it one of the larger student groups on campus. And at Ohio University, Olivia Barnes and Olivia Kaiser started Bobcats for Life after the fall of Roe. The club estimates that it has grown from two founding members to around ten members.
Other clubs, like Choose Life at Yale (CLAY), have increased their on-campus activity. In the last few years, CLAY, which has been active since the early 2000s, upped the amount of events it hosts on a campus it deems an “already overwhelmingly pro-abortion community.” (The Yale Daily News reported strong on-campus support for abortion rights last year.)
Anti-abortion advocacy groups at Catholic universities have also seen a strong increase in membership. Jackie Nguyen, president of the University of Notre Dame’s Right to Life club said it currently has more than 900 members on its email list and GroupMe, and that last year the group had about 700 members. The club’s website claims it has more than 700 members, making it the country’s biggest anti-choice student group.
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📌 Rounds for Reproductive Freedom: A Community Care Fair
Join Planned Parenthood MN Action Fund in an evening of taking action. We will have a variety of action stations, so make your rounds, make a difference, and find new ways to get involved! Together, we will assemble "Safer Sex Kits" to donate to our community partners and youth campuses, learn how to write LTEs, and get involved in our federal fights. Light refreshments will be provided.
* Date: Wednesday, April 15
* Time: 5 -7 PM
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📌 Planned Parenthood Action Fund: Spring Into Action
Join Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action for their Spring into Action fundraiser on Tuesday, April 22 at the Machine Shop in Minneapolis. We’ll celebrate our collective determination to protect our democracy and hear from leaders who are advocating for reproductive freedom, including Michele Brachter Goodwin. Dr. Goodwin is one of the most cited health law scholars in the world, authoring over 100 articles and commentaries on matters of law, medicine, and reproductive health. Tickets start at $50.
* Date: Tuesday, April 22
* Time: 5:30 - 8:00 PM
* Location: Machine Shop, 300 2nd St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
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📌 Abortion Access Community Resources from OurJustice
* From locating a clinic to finding childcare or transportation, we know it can be overwhelming to arrange everything necessary to access an abortion. Women Winning partner, OurJustice, has collected lists of community resources and services so that it’s easier to get the care you need.
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