I respect you President Biden and think highly of you…but the “better tomorrow” you are talking about starts by demanding Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו to stop killing children, targeting humanitarian volunteers and press! To open more routes by road into Gaza to feed everyone. To call for a cease fire,…

For years, I’ve been trying get answers to questions, questions about women’s health. For years I’ve heard the same thing over and over, “We don’t know.” How is it that we don’t know about half our population? Because we haven’t researched them! Women have been ignored in…

France is not the first country to have abortion in its constitution.
Slovenia (explicitly, since the 1990s, inherited from Yugoslavia which had it in the constitution in the 1970s)
South Africa (implicitly, since the 1990s)

Large news outlets need better fact checkers.

On the heels of President Biden’s pro-women, pro-family and pro-freedom State of the Union, Happy International Women’s Day everyone! The key to ending poverty and oppression for humanity is to empower and invest in women.

The Israeli slaughter of the starved, sick, brutalized, displaced civilians sheltering in Rafah has begun, in the final phase of this #genocide in #Gaza . Forgive us. We have failed. But the perpetrators & their supporters will be held to account. This stain will not wash. #Shame

Friday will be a historic day for North Carolina, with thousands of people across our state gaining access to critical health care. Medicaid Expansion will boost our economy, help keep rural hospital doors open and make our state a healthier place for all.
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North Carolina, we can do better! Did you know #midwifery care is proven to lower preterm birth?
#Maternal & #infant health is fundamental to all health, & it’s on all of us to act now to improve outcomes for #families . Learn more by visiting marchofdimes.org/reportcard .

Give this a listen. My colleague Yuliya Labko from March For Moms has some insight and recommendations.
#maternalhealth
#healthcarecosts

As birthing hospitals close, Alabama's #MaternityCare crisis is a warning for the rest of the nation. We know that #Midwives are a proven solution to increase access to safe, quality care with better outcomes for low risk pregnancies and births.

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So pleased to see this endorsement of clearing a path to access proven solutions! The #SAVEAct will give nurse-midwives and other APRNs the ability to provide greater access to healthcare and contribute to improving health outcomes. @atriumhealth gets it!
#ncleg
#ncpol

In North Carolina, we don't need ghosts and goblins, or haunted houses, we have the GOP.
#gerrymander
#autonomy
#votersrights
#surgicalprecision
#reproductiveinjustice
#ncpol
#ncleg

Wishing you treats. Fighting for justice. Happy #Halloween !

If we could implement telehealth during a pandemic, we can train & educate more Black midwives, and open more Black-led birth centers.
#maternalhealth
#healthequity
#midwives
#birthcenters
#MoreBlackMidwives
usatoday.com/story/opinion/… via @usatoday

“Compassion is the intention and commitment to alleviate the suffering of others in a non-transactional way.”-- Roshi Joan

Roshi Joan: 'We have to see that privilege confers responsibility, responsibility to raise up the less privileged but more importantly, to disrupt the systems that confer privilege.'

Respectfully, on the subject of redistricting NCGA/House maps — I’m sounding an alarm on a challenge to democracy. These maps are racially gerrymandered, ignore the VRA, and the NCGOP used NC’s most partisan court in history to make it “legal” (a court R’s made partisan). 🧵

Let's join them, North Carolina.
#abortionishealthcare

Out of 30 Republicans in the NC Senate, only 4 are women. Zero are non-white.

There's been a big noticable shift in #ncpol Republicans' deflections on gerrymandering.

For years, they just denied doing it. But with these new maps, they dropped the act. The line now is basically: 'we rigged them because we can, and there's nothing you can do to stop us.'

Hatred does not help alleviate our pain.