Health Info, Policy Updates
9.7.24 Voter Empowerment Alert
September 9, 2024
The FAQ-style toolkit to help you feel confident leading up to Election Day.
The 2024 election will be, yet again, the most consequential election of our lives.
Women’s health and voting rights are inextricably linked. Our votes can save lives, restore bodily autonomy, and transform the country into a place where women and people assigned female at birth are full citizens again. As part of our #4Her2024 Get Out the Vote campaign, the NWHN, Sarah Epperson, and NOISE FOR NOW bring you this exclusive T-shirt so that you can proudly identify as a women’s health voter. 90% of the proceeds go right back to the NWHN’s work. Preorder today.
VOTER TIP OF THE WEEK
Why should I pledge to vote?
Making a pledge is a psychological strategy that helps keep you focused and committed to goals you might otherwise be tempted to give up on and, with women’s health on the line, showing up to vote this year is more crucial than ever. Pledge to vote here.
Get more voting tips and resources at our Voting HQ Page.
ELECTION NEWS
– Abortion measures on the ballot in 41 states, voters to have say on other tough questions.
– Missouri will vote on whether to make abortion a state constitutional right in November.
– Trump says he’ll support free IVF treatments in a second term.
– Harris and Trump offer starkly different visions on climate change and energy.
– Trump’s ‘inconsistent’ message on abortion may backfire: analysts.
WOMEN’S HEALTH ISSUE EDUCATION
– Biden administration announces expansion of maternal home visit programs.
– As rural hospitals shutter maternity wards, urban ones follow.
– 6 conditions that highlight the women’s health gap.
– Analysis: The huge stakes in the Supreme Court’s new abortion case.
– Opinion: We must fight back against the Supreme Court’s attacks on women’s equality.
NWHN Trusted Resource Highlight
6 Underlying Causes of the Maternal Health Crisis In the U.S. Read it now.
In Solidarity,
The National Women’s Health Network
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