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NCJWSTL strives for social justice by improving the quality of lives for women, children & families, and by safeguarding individual rights and freedoms.
Washington stopped measuring hunger. Missouri is seeing more of it. missouriindependent.com/2026/10/17/w...
Commentary: Washington stopped measuring hunger. Missouri is seeing more of it. • Missouri Independent
For more than three decades, the federal government released an annual comprehensive report on the state of hunger in America. But that ended in 2025 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced ...
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“If Amendment 3 passes, women dealing with hemorrhaging, high blood pressure, even cancer, might not be able to get the care they need until it's too late.” Listen to the doctors. They know what their patients need and must be able to respond quickly in emergencies. #StopTheBanMO
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U.S. Senators Urge FDA Update to Mifepristone Label for Miscarriage Use: 'Patients Should Have Access to the Most Effective Medication Available' msmagazine.com/2023/02/03/a...
U.S. Senators Urge FDA Update to Mifepristone Label for Miscarriage Use: 'Patients Should Have Access to the Most Effective Medication Available'
The drug mifepristone is widely used for abortion, but is also highly effective at treating incomplete miscarriages. FDA, get in line.
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NCJWSTL Director of Advocacy is at the STL County Government Center Northwest urging voters to vote NO on Amendment 3 and Prop A. Early voting began yesterday - you don't have to wait! #StopTheBan #PeopleNotPoliticians
In 2024, together we passed the Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment, protecting access to abortion, birth control, prenatal care, IVF, and maternal health care. Amendment 3 will take that away. NO on 3 #StopTheBanMO
A new owner took over central Missouri hospital. 9 days later, it cut labor and delivery missouriindependent.com/2026/10/13/a...
A new owner took over central Missouri hospital. 9 days later, it cut labor and delivery • Missouri Independent
For pregnant women living north of Interstate 70 in central Missouri, there weren’t many places to deliver a baby. Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall was one of them. Now it isn’t. Fitzgibbon delivered 2...
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If Amendment 3 passes, health care decisions will be taken away from Missourians and their families and placed in the hands of politicians and lawyers. We are choosing to fight back! NO on 3 #StopTheBanMo
Natural. Pure. Clean. These terms and concepts surface again and again in MAHA and anti-abortion spheres. But now, in 2026, the anti-abortion movement and MAHA’s hyper fixation on purity isn’t limited to disinformation about abortion-tainted water.
Anti-Abortion Movement’s Sudden Obsession with the Environment
Students for Life’s and anti-abortion movement's misinformation campaign is an appeal to the growing Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) tent.
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Amendment 3 would deny essential reproductive care and threaten doctors with jail. Missourians already know what it’s like to live under an abortion ban, and we rejected it. NO on 3 #StopTheBanMO
Missouri doesn’t require asking pregnant patients about their mental health. New moms keep dying missouriindependent.com/2026/09/30/m...
Missouri doesn’t require asking pregnant patients about their mental health. New moms keep dying • Missouri Independent
When a doctor starts asking a new mother about feelings of depression, therapist Haley Walker said the patient may be thinking about more than her actual symptoms. “[It] can feel scary as a new mom,” ...
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Medication abortion is safe and essential health care. As we mark 26 years since the FDA approved mifepristone, one of two medications commonly used in medication abortion, We're proud to join @ncjw.bsky.social for a day of action to protect our health care! #ProtectMedicationAbortion #mifeinall50
For 26 years, mifepristone has been used by over 7.5 million people for abortion and miscarriage care. Mifepristone is safe, effective, and essential health care — and we won't let politics get in the way of our access to care. We have to #ProtectMedicationAbortion. @ncjw.bsky.social #mifeinall50
A Restraining Order Is Not Enough When an Abuser Has a Gun msmagazine.com/2026/09/22/d...
A Restraining Order Is Not Enough When an Abuser Has a Gun
Nearly 2,400 women were killed by men in 2024, according to a recent Violence Policy Center report. Nearly nine out of 10 knew their killer, and firearms were used in 63.4 percent of these homicides. ...
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This new Amendment 3 is a plot by Missouri politicians to overturn the will of voters and ban abortion, stripping medical decisions away from our families and doctors and putting them in the hands of politicians. We won’t let them. NO on 3 #StopTheBanMo
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Proposition A is on the ballot. You have the power to reject the politicians' power grab. Vote NO on Proposition A this November. #NoOnA #PeopleNotPoliticians
Access shouldn’t depend on income, age, or zip code. We all deserve the freedom to make informed choices about our reproductive health. Free EC from Beacon is here: BeaconReproHealth.org #EmergencyContraception
In 2024, we made it clear that we don’t want politicians to make medical decisions for Missourians and our families. But now politicians are trying to overturn our vote and ban abortion. Vote NO on 3 this November. #StopTheBanMo
Kids are back in classrooms. Health misinformation could shape the school year. 19thnews.org/2026/09/back... via @19thnews.org
Kids are back in classrooms. Health misinformation could shape the school year.
Public health officials and medical experts worry that declining vaccination rates will lead to more children getting infected with preventable diseases.
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"Women are not a special interest group. They are half the population." May her memory forever be a blessing.
This morning, NCJW deeply mourns the loss of Gloria Steinem, a trailblazing feminist, journalist, and activist whose work transformed the fight for gender equality in America and around the world.
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Amendment 3 would deny essential reproductive care and threaten doctors with jail. Missourians already know what it’s like to live under an abortion ban, and we rejected it. NO on 3 #StopTheBanMO
Marlene Hammerman, a leader from NCJW St. Louis, has spent decades fighting for reproductive freedom. Her work is part of NCJW St. Louis's long-running Jews for Reproductive Access Initiative. Check out her reflections in @missouriindependent.com:
Missouri women have fought for abortion rights for decades. They’re still fighting • Missouri Independent
“I was 25 when I started. I can’t believe I still have to fight for women’s reproductive rights at 75,” Marlene Hammerman told me. Marlene notarized hundreds of signature sheets as a volunteer for…
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