Missouri law says that “life begins at conception.” But conception is not defined, and it is unclear if conception includes embryos create through in vitro fertilization.
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U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07) in reintroducing a comprehensive bill to improve maternal health outcomes, reverse the trend of rising maternal mortality rates, and close disparities that put Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities and their kids at greater risk of adverse health outcomes. The
Maximizing Outcomes for Moms through Medicaid Improvement and Enhancement of Services (MOMMIES) Act would build upon recent advancements in Medicaid coverage for pregnant and postpartum people that Senator Baldwin helped secure in the recently-passed
RELEASE: State Benchmark Health Insurance Plans Fall Short in Advancing Maternal Health
Date: April 30, 2021
Contact: Colin Seeberger
Washington, D.C. Today, the Women’s Initiative at the Center for American Progress released a new column spotlighting an analysis of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) benchmark plans’ maternity care coverage for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The authors find wide variations in how state benchmark plans cover a variety of pregnancy-related services, including coverage of ultrasounds, birth center or home-based care, midwifery care, and pregnancy care for plan dependents putting pregnant people’s physical and financial well-being at risk and states potentially in violation of federal law. The column’s release comes a week before states must submit amended ACA benchmark plan proposals to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the 2023 plan year.
Women s Initiative By Nora Ellmann and Jamille Fields Allsbrook
COLUMN By Jamille Fields Allsbrook and Osub Ahmed
ISSUE BRIEF By Robin Bleiweis and Juli Adhikari
VIDEO By Diana Boesch
COLUMN By Robin Bleiweis and Shilpa Phadke
COLUMN By Osub Ahmed, Shilpa Phadke, and Diana Boesch
ISSUE BRIEF By Diana Boesch By Nora Ellmann By Judith Warner By Jocelyn Frye
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CAP’s Women’s Initiative is a comprehensive effort to marshal CAP’s broad expertise and promote public policies that enable women to participate fully in our economy and our society. Women have made enormous progress over the past 50 years, but our workplaces and national policies have not adapted to our changing society. We believe that women and the challenges they face must be at the center of our national policy debate in order to develop res
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
The Center for American Progress (CAP) wants the evil of killing an unborn baby to be valued as essential health care and protected by law. An email titled “Abortion is Essential Healthcare” by Jamille Fields Allsbrook, CAP director of women’s health and rights, stated: “We must transform how abortion is treated in this country This means building a cultural and systemic framework that values abortion as essential health care.”
Jesus would respond with the words from the gospel of John, chapter 8, verse 44: “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning.”