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Call for Paid Leave and Workplace Stories for September and October of 2019

Diverse women’s voices matter, but often we find ourselves absent from the table where our perspectives could make the most difference. Women are not a...[Read More]

16 Aug
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Class rolls tell an American story

I don’t have teacher’s pets, but if I did, this year it might have been a young man named Alejandro. He was consistently late to...[Read More]

14 Aug
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Why My Cells Matter

Buried amidst candidate town halls, presidential tweets, and memorials to the 75th anniversary of D Day in early June, the Trump Administration began a campaign...[Read More]

12 Aug
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Bullying Education General Leadership Media Reform Self Care Youth Issues

Moxie Intern, Brie McGhee, On Finding Her Voice

Working at Women AdvaNCe has been an eye-opening, at times challenging, ultimately rewarding experience. I started the summer eager to jump right in, energized by...[Read More]

9 Aug
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Pregnancy and Poverty

Where I come from, homes aren’t typically built on happiness, financial stability and mutual trust. Families are centered around desperation, jealousy and poverty. People barely...[Read More]

7 Aug
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Abortion Rights General Health and Safety Health, Wellness, and Prevention Maternal Mortality MyBodyNC Reproductive Health Reproductive Rights Self Care Self Care Trauma

Life of the Mother

April 11, 2015 was my daughter’s fifth birthday party. In the pictures from that day, I am wearing a knee-length fluttery skirt and an aqua...[Read More]

5 Aug
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The Media is Complicit in Promoting Misinformation About Abortion

In the past few months, we have heard and read much about “fetal heartbeat” laws being passed in several states. The nickname for these bills...[Read More]

2 Aug
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The Me I Was Supposed to Be

I sat in the dark room of a battered women’s shelter in Omaha, Nebraska, surrounded by my three daughters aged 9, 7, and 5 while...[Read More]

31 Jul
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One in Four Women: Now You Know Me

Most recent statistics indicate nearly one in four women in the United States will have had an abortion by the age of 45. Abortion is...[Read More]

29 Jul
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Abortion Bans Threaten Public Health

The “Never Again” coat-hanger posters often seen at pro-choice demonstrations are at once evocative and cautionary. They conjure up images of gruesome back-alley abortions of...[Read More]

26 Jul
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