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July 17th, 2025
Women Winning is Growing – Join Our Team to Shape the Future of Reproductive Freedom
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Women Winning is at a pivotal moment in the fight to protect reproductive rights in Minnesota and beyond. As attacks on bodily autonomy, pro-choice leadership and accessible abortion healthcare escalate, we are elevating our organization to meet the urgency of this moment.
We are thrilled to announce that Women Winning will be growing our team and moving into a new headquarters to meet new security protocols and support our expanded work in 2026. With our bold new organizational model, and creating space for Winning Forward [[link removed]] , we will increase our impact in every corner of the state.
We’re Hiring – and Building Power
Over the next few months, we are hiring key positions to build out our capacity:
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In addition, we are actively seeking new 2026 Board Members—visionary leaders who are ready to help guide this organization at a critical time in pro-choice politics.
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Help Fuel the Movement
You can be part of this transformation. Your donation to the 2026 Fund directly supports:
Staffing our expanded team
Building infrastructure to support more pro-choice campaigns
Establishing our new headquarters for organizing, training, and advocacy
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Together, we’re building a future where reproductive freedom is not just protected, but guaranteed.
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Abortion-related travel could face another ‘shock to the system’ under new spending law
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Trump's law “defunds” Planned Parenthood, which could lead to clinic closures across the country. States where abortion is legal stand to be hit the hardest.
A new federal law that would “defund” Planned Parenthood could gut the system people have used to obtain abortions since the fall of Roe v. Wade, disproportionately closing the clinics in states that have become abortion havens for people living under bans.
Backed by President Donald Trump, the spending law prohibits reproductive health clinics from billing services to Medicaid if they provide or are part of health networks that perform abortions, are nonprofits and receive over $800,000 per year from the federal government. Although that part of the law is blocked for now, Planned Parenthood is gearing up for major financial losses that, unless new funds emerge, could shutter health centers across the country, particularly in states where abortion is legal and Medicaid programs more robust.
The move has been framed by politicians across the spectrum, anti-abortion activists and reproductive health providers alike, as an effort to eliminate a major source of funding for Planned Parenthood, specifically. Abortion opponents have claimed this “defunding” as their biggest victory since the 2022 Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and end federal abortion rights.
Currently, about one-third of all of Planned Parenthood’s revenue comes from federal and state funding; Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income Americans, is the biggest single source. Medicaid insures 1 in 5 Americans, and it does not cover abortion unless states allot their own specific funds to do so. But the program remains a major source of income for Planned Parenthood because it covers other services patients might get at clinics such as testing for sexually transmitted infections, breast exams and contraception. If clinics can’t bill any of those services to Medicaid, patients covered through the program will have to go elsewhere for health care — or simply go without.
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“We’re in a Generational Fight.” A Conversation with Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson
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“We’re in a generational fight.” This is not going away in the next election, or the election after that. We need to settle in, gather ourselves, and make this fight a part of our everyday lives. We have to be in it for the long game.
“They just want to shame women.” There’s no getting around the fact that so much of the anti-abortion mission is about shame and control. As Alexis said, this is a party that is “focused on deregulation of everything else except for our bodies.”
“No deals are happening here.” In a moment when Republicans are using federal dollars to try to force Planned Parenthood to stop providing abortion care, I was especially happy to hear Alexis say that will never, ever happen:
“Planned Parenthood not providing abortions and cutting a deal with Donald Trump? Like, I don't know her.”
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Data on Maternal Death Is Being Distorted or Hidden, Experts Say
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Pregnancy and childbirth have become more deadly in states with abortion bans, especially for Black people. But the state committees, whose job is to study those deaths with the goal of preventing them, face political meddling.
In the three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and states enacted their trigger abortion bans, dire predictions from researchers, doctors, and maternal health advocates have come true: Outlawing abortion has caused more people to die or suffer severe illness during pregnancy, especially Black pregnant people.
The overall U.S. maternal mortality rate rose for Black women from 2022 to 2023, while decreasing for other demographics. Following widely read reports of women dying because they did not get lifesaving treatment for complications of at-home abortion or miscarriage, some states are now trying, with varying success, to clarify the medical exception to their abortion bans, including Texas, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
But task forces that are supposed to help local and state governments combat this growing maternal mortality crisis are being undermined, distorted, or even erased by officials and legislators with political agendas.
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Republicans Introduce HR 4131, Which Would Outlaw Common Disposal of Fetal Remains
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House Republicans have introduced federal legislation that would outlaw flushing fetal remains.
Under the “Respectful Treatment of Unborn Remains Act,” abortion providers who dispose of fetal remains “in publicly owned water systems” could go to prison for up to five years. The bill is just the latest in a growing anti-abortion strategy: claiming that abortion medication and aborted fetuses are poisoning the country’s water supply.
Just a few weeks ago, Abortion, Every Day reported that twenty-five Republican lawmakers had written a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), demanding that the agency test the nation’s water supply for abortion medication. The legislators told EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin that mifepristone should be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, claiming—without evidence—that abortion pills could be responsible for “our nation’s rising infertility rates.”
This made-for-MAHA tactic has been steadily gaining steam over the last year, with extremist group Students for Life leading the charge: the organization insists that abortion pills are harming the environment, killing the wildlife, and poisoning the country’s drinking water. More than that, they say that because women who have medication abortions flush embryonic or fetal remains, “we are drinking other people’s abortions.”
I know this is easy to make fun of. (Like, really easy.) But we have to take this strategy more seriously—if for no other reason than anti-abortion activists and legislators are clearly putting a whole lot of effort into it.
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📌 Women Ignite!
* This annual event, hosted by the Minnesota Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners and the Metropolitan Economic Development Association, fosters meaningful connections, strategic partnerships, and business growth. All are welcome to attend. Please note that this event is specifically designed to support and address the unique experiences of women-owned businesses.
* 📅 Wednesday, August 20 | 4:30 PM CT
* 🎟️ Register HERE [[link removed]]
📌 Training: Abortion, Trans Rights & Bodily Autonomy
* Join Unrestrict Minnesota for a virtual training where we’ll explore the deep connections between abortion rights and trans rights, and gain tools to talk about these issues with the people in our lives.
* 📅 Wednesday, July 30 | 5:00 PM CT
* 🎟️ Register HERE [[link removed]]
📌 Join AAF on Saturday, August 9th, from 1pm -- 2:30pm CT for Operation Save Abortion!
* Join Abortion Access Front’s Feminist Buzzkills and crew for a high-energy, high-impact workshop streamed live from Netroots Nation. In this session of Operation Save Abortion, you’ll get the inside scoop on the tactics being used to roll back abortion rights, and learn exactly how to fight back.
* This isn’t just talk. It’s action. With toolkits, Q&A, and clear steps to get involved, you’ll leave ready to defend abortion access in your community.
* 📅 Saturday, August 9 | 1:00-2:30 PM CT
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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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