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Sr. Media Relations Manager at @nwlc.org | Washington, DC
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Yesterday, people across the country went to the polls, and they chose hope.
With historic firsts and wins across the country, voters everywhere cast out hatred in hope of a better future—a future with reproductive freedom, universal child care, and civil rights.
With historic firsts and wins across the country, voters everywhere cast out hatred in hope of a better future—a future with reproductive freedom, universal child care, and civil rights.
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Yesterday, people across the country went to the polls, and they chose hope.
With historic firsts and wins across the country, voters everywhere cast out hatred in hope of a better future—a future with reproductive freedom, universal child care, and civil rights.
With historic firsts and wins across the country, voters everywhere cast out hatred in hope of a better future—a future with reproductive freedom, universal child care, and civil rights.
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This video is devastating. Imagine dropping your child off at daycare, only to learn that ICE took a beloved caregiver in front of the children minutes after. Imagine going to work to care for beloved children, only to be ripped away from them and your own family by ICE.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This video is devastating. Imagine dropping your child off at daycare, only to learn that ICE took a beloved caregiver in front of the children minutes after. Imagine going to work to care for beloved children, only to be ripped away from them and your own family by ICE.
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Polls & ballots resoundingly show that abortion access is popular in the U.S. Yet extremists are waging a coordinated attack to dismantle reproductive freedom. Fatima Goss Graves, President & CEO of @nwlc.org, joins us to discuss the status of abortion access, what’s ahead, & what brings her hope.
Temperature Check: What is the Status of Abortion Access in the U.S.? — rePROs Fight Back
Whether it’s communicated in polls or at the ballot box, access to abortion is extremely popular in the United States. Yet, our rights are being blatantly stripped away—and abortion care won’t be the ...
www.reprosfightback.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Polls & ballots resoundingly show that abortion access is popular in the U.S. Yet extremists are waging a coordinated attack to dismantle reproductive freedom. Fatima Goss Graves, President & CEO of @nwlc.org, joins us to discuss the status of abortion access, what’s ahead, & what brings her hope.
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News outlets like @wsj.com have a critical responsibility to report the truth.
Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger.
Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.
Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger.
Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.
September 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
News outlets like @wsj.com have a critical responsibility to report the truth.
Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger.
Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.
Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger.
Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.
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The gender wage gap widened in 2024 for the second year in a row, marking a blow to women's pay equity efforts nationwide. bit.ly/4pim9JL
September 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The gender wage gap widened in 2024 for the second year in a row, marking a blow to women's pay equity efforts nationwide. bit.ly/4pim9JL
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For the second year in a row, the gender pay gap has widened— a first since the government began tracking data on income around the 1960s. https://bit.ly/3I3MUku
September 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
For the second year in a row, the gender pay gap has widened— a first since the government began tracking data on income around the 1960s. https://bit.ly/3I3MUku
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Men's wages went up last year but women's incomes didn't budge, per new data out this morning.
The gender pay gap is getting wider, reversing progress
It's the second consecutive year that the gender wage gap widened.
www.axios.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Men's wages went up last year but women's incomes didn't budge, per new data out this morning.
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RFK JR: You’re just making stuff up
Hassan: Sometimes when you make an accusation, it’s kind of a confession
Hassan: Sometimes when you make an accusation, it’s kind of a confession
September 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
RFK JR: You’re just making stuff up
Hassan: Sometimes when you make an accusation, it’s kind of a confession
Hassan: Sometimes when you make an accusation, it’s kind of a confession
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin's new research shows us why the pronatalist argument of returning to traditional roles of men as providers and women as homemakers would actually cause the birthrate to drop even further.
19thnews.org/2025/08/fert...
19thnews.org/2025/08/fert...
To raise fertility rates, it’s not women who need to step up — it’s men
New research found that countries where men do more housework and child care have higher fertility rates.
19thnews.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin's new research shows us why the pronatalist argument of returning to traditional roles of men as providers and women as homemakers would actually cause the birthrate to drop even further.
19thnews.org/2025/08/fert...
19thnews.org/2025/08/fert...
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The @nwlc.org warns that pronatalist policies like baby bonuses and motherhood medals are designed to control women’s bodies rather than genuinely support families.
Trump's Pronatalist Agenda Weaponizes Motherhood to Push Women Out of Public Life
the Trump administration's pronatalist agenda weaponizes motherhood to push women out of public life and into domestic roles.
msmagazine.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The @nwlc.org warns that pronatalist policies like baby bonuses and motherhood medals are designed to control women’s bodies rather than genuinely support families.
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👀 NEW: The group behind Project 2025 wants a "Manhattan Project" for more babies.
We have the Heritage Foundation's closely-held draft paper taking a hard turn into "pronatalism."
It pitches ripping up economic policy to induce straight, married couples to have more children.
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We have the Heritage Foundation's closely-held draft paper taking a hard turn into "pronatalism."
It pitches ripping up economic policy to induce straight, married couples to have more children.
Gift link ⤵️
The group behind Project 2025 wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies
A draft position paper from the Heritage Foundation proposes massive revisions to U.S. economic policy to encourage heterosexual married parents to have more children.
wapo.st
September 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
👀 NEW: The group behind Project 2025 wants a "Manhattan Project" for more babies.
We have the Heritage Foundation's closely-held draft paper taking a hard turn into "pronatalism."
It pitches ripping up economic policy to induce straight, married couples to have more children.
Gift link ⤵️
We have the Heritage Foundation's closely-held draft paper taking a hard turn into "pronatalism."
It pitches ripping up economic policy to induce straight, married couples to have more children.
Gift link ⤵️
Report Warns of Anti-Family Pronatalist Movement's Growing Influence on Trump White House
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...
Report Warns of Anti-Family Pronatalist Movement's Growing Influence on Trump White House | Common Dreams
The Trump administration's push for more children is not about family values, but about promoting racist, sexist, and anti-immigrant ideologies. Demand real pro-family policies that support all famili...
www.commondreams.org
August 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Report Warns of Anti-Family Pronatalist Movement's Growing Influence on Trump White House
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...
Behind the “baby bonuses” and “motherhood medals” is a racist, sexist, and xenophobic movement that is influencing family policy at the highest level of government.
Check out our @nwlc.org's new report on the dangers of the pronatalism agenda below ⬇️
Check out our @nwlc.org's new report on the dangers of the pronatalism agenda below ⬇️
NEW: Today, we released a report exposing the growing influence of the pronatalist movement on the Trump agenda, tracing its deep roots in racist and sexist ideology and highlighting policies that actively undermine the ability to have and raise children.
Read more:
Read more:
Behind the Baby Bonuses: New Report Argues Pronatalism is Pro-Control, Not Pro-Baby - National Women's Law Center
WASHINGTON – The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a new report outlining the dangers of the pronatalist (“pro-baby”) movement and its increasing influence on the Trump administration’s agenda. Read the report here: Baby Bonuses and Motherhood Medals: Why We Shouldn’t Trust the Pronatalist Movement “Underneath shiny motherhood medals and promises of baby bonuses is a movement […]
bit.ly
August 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Behind the “baby bonuses” and “motherhood medals” is a racist, sexist, and xenophobic movement that is influencing family policy at the highest level of government.
Check out our @nwlc.org's new report on the dangers of the pronatalism agenda below ⬇️
Check out our @nwlc.org's new report on the dangers of the pronatalism agenda below ⬇️
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HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...
www.hhs.gov
July 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
HHS announced today they will consider Head Start a welfare program, not an education program, and will subject it to new citizenship requirements. This goes against decades of legal precedence that all children in America have a right to education. Announcement here. www.hhs.gov/press-room/p...
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tfw you've just stripped healthcare from 17 million Americans and ensured the closure of rural hospitals
July 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
tfw you've just stripped healthcare from 17 million Americans and ensured the closure of rural hospitals
Awesome piece from @nowthisimpact.bsky.social on this anti-abortion measure -- @nwlc.org also has a blog out that shows how your coverage may be impacted if this awful bill passes. Check it out ⬇️
nwlc.org/the-big-beau...
nwlc.org/the-big-beau...
June 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Awesome piece from @nowthisimpact.bsky.social on this anti-abortion measure -- @nwlc.org also has a blog out that shows how your coverage may be impacted if this awful bill passes. Check it out ⬇️
nwlc.org/the-big-beau...
nwlc.org/the-big-beau...
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The Senate’s ‘Big, Bad Budget’ would impose a sweeping nationwide abortion ban by blocking Affordable Care Act insurers from covering abortion care in all 50 states.
June 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The Senate’s ‘Big, Bad Budget’ would impose a sweeping nationwide abortion ban by blocking Affordable Care Act insurers from covering abortion care in all 50 states.
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Our thoughts are with the Hortman family after this horrific act, and with those who were reported to be on the list of targets–which included abortion providers.
Hateful rhetoric fuels violence—today is a glaring example of that.
Hateful rhetoric fuels violence—today is a glaring example of that.
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
June 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Our thoughts are with the Hortman family after this horrific act, and with those who were reported to be on the list of targets–which included abortion providers.
Hateful rhetoric fuels violence—today is a glaring example of that.
Hateful rhetoric fuels violence—today is a glaring example of that.
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An alarming anti-abortion measure is tucked into Trump’s budget bill and no one is talking about it.
Read our blog below to find out more about Trump and House Republicans’ latest effort to implement a nationwide abortion ban.
Read our blog below to find out more about Trump and House Republicans’ latest effort to implement a nationwide abortion ban.
The “Big Beautiful Bill Act” Is Coming for Your Abortion Coverage
Their ultimate goal is to put abortion care out of reach for everyone, everywhere, under every circumstance, and this measure is just one step toward that goal.
bit.ly
June 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
An alarming anti-abortion measure is tucked into Trump’s budget bill and no one is talking about it.
Read our blog below to find out more about Trump and House Republicans’ latest effort to implement a nationwide abortion ban.
Read our blog below to find out more about Trump and House Republicans’ latest effort to implement a nationwide abortion ban.
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“By telling insurance companies they can no longer receive vital federal funding if they provide abortion coverage under their plans, Trump & House Republicans are giving insurance providers an enormous incentive to weaken their abortion coverage or drop it completely.”@nwlc
nwlc.org/the-big-beau...
nwlc.org/the-big-beau...
The “Big Beautiful Bill Act” Is Coming for Your Abortion Coverage
Their ultimate goal is to put abortion care out of reach for everyone, everywhere, under every circumstance, and this measure is just one step toward that goal.
nwlc.org
June 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“By telling insurance companies they can no longer receive vital federal funding if they provide abortion coverage under their plans, Trump & House Republicans are giving insurance providers an enormous incentive to weaken their abortion coverage or drop it completely.”@nwlc
nwlc.org/the-big-beau...
nwlc.org/the-big-beau...
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Here's Emily Martin of the National Women’s Law Center on what's going on here.
"If this measure stays in the bill, only a billionaire would be able to get prompt relief from the courts when this administration breaks the law,” she said in a statement.
"If this measure stays in the bill, only a billionaire would be able to get prompt relief from the courts when this administration breaks the law,” she said in a statement.
June 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Here's Emily Martin of the National Women’s Law Center on what's going on here.
"If this measure stays in the bill, only a billionaire would be able to get prompt relief from the courts when this administration breaks the law,” she said in a statement.
"If this measure stays in the bill, only a billionaire would be able to get prompt relief from the courts when this administration breaks the law,” she said in a statement.
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Now they’re trying to rob us of meaningful checks on this lawless administration.
This measure would make it so you'd have to be a literal billionaire in order afford prompt action by the courts. Read more below: www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
This measure would make it so you'd have to be a literal billionaire in order afford prompt action by the courts. Read more below: www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
Senate GOP Strips Contempt Provision From Tax Bill — But Still Lets Trump Be King
They took language out of the House GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that limited courts' powers, but now want to price people out of being able to sue the government at all.
www.huffpost.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Now they’re trying to rob us of meaningful checks on this lawless administration.
This measure would make it so you'd have to be a literal billionaire in order afford prompt action by the courts. Read more below: www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
This measure would make it so you'd have to be a literal billionaire in order afford prompt action by the courts. Read more below: www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...
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This is how they're treating a sitting U.S. senator. Imagine what they're doing to ordinary people when the cameras are off.
Trump and his admin are making clear they will silence & brutalize elected officials, protestors, and anyone who disagrees w/them—currently a healthy majority of the country.
Trump and his admin are making clear they will silence & brutalize elected officials, protestors, and anyone who disagrees w/them—currently a healthy majority of the country.
BREAKING: Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed after interrupting a news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
apnews.com/article/los-...
apnews.com/article/los-...
June 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This is how they're treating a sitting U.S. senator. Imagine what they're doing to ordinary people when the cameras are off.
Trump and his admin are making clear they will silence & brutalize elected officials, protestors, and anyone who disagrees w/them—currently a healthy majority of the country.
Trump and his admin are making clear they will silence & brutalize elected officials, protestors, and anyone who disagrees w/them—currently a healthy majority of the country.
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Congressional Republicans want to expand the Child Tax Credit...to those who need it the least. If you didn't already believe this bill is just one huge gift to the rich, this should convince you.
Tax Credit Increase Would Exclude Millions of Low-Income Children, Study Finds
The domestic policy bill passed by the House raises the maximum child tax credit to $2,500. But about a third of children would not receive the full credit because their parents have low wages or lack jobs.
f.mtr.cool
June 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Congressional Republicans want to expand the Child Tax Credit...to those who need it the least. If you didn't already believe this bill is just one huge gift to the rich, this should convince you.
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GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”
May 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”