Wife. Mama. Michigander in MD. Program Officer, Fetzer Institute. Fellow, Center for Public Justice. Believer & engager in communities- political to the sacred.
"When we eclipse the sexed body from view in rights theories built upon the mythical unencumbered autonomous individual of social contract theorists’ imaginings, we especially eclipse from view the feminine vulnerabilities of pregnancy and childbearing."
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Fair on ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage. Conflating all 'pregnancy related medical care' where Dobbs has impact with care within these two narrow categories is deeply problematic. "Why the Dobbs decision won’t imperil pregnancy-related medical care" https://t.co/26b0ugfeTi
Is there hope for common ground on paid family leave? One group of Christian leaders thinks so.
I'm delighted to share this recent proposal from our Leadership Council #paidfamilyleave#paidleave
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@edstetzer@edstetzer check out writing by Amar Peterman and Yasmine Arrington’s nonprofit ScholarCHIPS which raises money for children of incarcerated parents to go to college
Politics is causing great spiritual harm in Americans' lives, and a big reason for that is Americans are going to politics to get their emotional and spiritual needs met.
The House just passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act on a bipartisan vote. It's pro-family, pro-woman and pro-child to accommodate, welcome, and plan for pregnant women in the workplace.
This is Trump-style scorched earth politics. Don’t bother making an argument just compare your opponent to the worst thing you can think of. I guarantee he doesn’t say this when campaigning in Bible-believing Black and Brown churches.
@JoshHochschild Sure. Always willing to talk and listen. My hope is that students will also be invited, and listened to, in conversations about freedom, responsibility and truth in exercising citizenship.
Shout out to all the parents making breakfast, turning on PBS Kids, singing songs, & keeping tiny people balanced and protected in the midst of all of this.
Just in September, 865,000 women over 20 dropped out of the American workforce compared with 216,000 men in the same age group.
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