A new Fox News opinion piece from Alex J. Adams, Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, argues that America’s childcare crisis needs more parental freedom and less Washington control. I think that instinct is right. Families should not be forced into one model of care. Some families need a childcare center. Some…
Abortion-rights organizers are saying something plainly that support-first people need to hear plainly. Court rulings may change formal access to medication abortion. They may create confusion. They may affect pharmacies, doctors, telehealth providers, and official distribution channels. But they will not end abortion pills. That is not my claim. It is what abortion-rights advocates themselves…
Moms.gov is a good step. It tells the country something true: women facing hard or unexpected pregnancies need support, and that support should be easier to find. The site points women and families toward pregnancy centers, health centers, nutrition help, mental health resources, adoption information, Early Head Start, and other supports. That matters. But we…
Arkansas deserves credit. Its “Claim Your Care” effort recognizes a basic truth that too many systems miss: services only help women if women know those services exist in time to matter. That is not a small insight. A woman facing an unexpected pregnancy often does not experience the system as a coordinated network of options….
Caroline Lewis at Gothamist reported this week on new NYC Health Department data showing that more working mothers in New York City are taking paid postpartum leave since New York’s Paid Family Leave law took effect in 2018. That is good news. According to the article, among New Yorkers who worked through pregnancy and planned…
A $13M texting expansion from South Carolina into North Carolina points to a shift: maternal health support must be practical, measurable, and close enough to reach a woman before crisis. A maternal support program that begins with a text message may not sound like infrastructure. We usually reserve that word for roads, bridges, broadband, hospitals,…
The Wall Street Journal recently described a growing conflict inside Republican and pro-life politics: national pro-life leaders expected more aggressive federal action on mifepristone, while the Trump administration has largely kept the abortion issue at arm’s length and treated it as a political third rail. The details matter. According to the article, leaders such as…
A recent article in The Hill is worth reading—even, and maybe especially, if you disagree with its abortion-access perspective. Link: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5853830-reproductive-freedom-affordability-crisis/ The author is clearly writing from the standpoint of someone who supports abortion access. Readers who do not share that view should recognize that frame and take it with a grain of salt. But…
RX Kids, a prenatal and infant cash support program that began in Flint, is now expanding across the state. According to RX Kids, the program is already operating in 42 Michigan communities and will expand to more than 60—reaching more than 23,000 births each year. The model is simple: Eligible mothers receive $1,500 during pregnancy…
Last week, Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court ruled that the state constitution guarantees a right to abortion, striking down a 1982 law that had banned Medicaid funding for the procedure. The decision landed like a grenade in an already fractured national conversation. One side celebrated. The other mourned. The news cycle moved on. But buried inside the…