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“Voters must advocate to retain reproductive rights. In addition to abortion health care, we must ensure that access to contraception and IVF is not limited, because they are also being targeted,” she warned.

Janice Robinson, NC Program Director of Red Wine and Blue, and Susan Sawin, Dare County Democratic Party Chair, delivered compelling closing remarks, urging rally-goers to mobilize ahead of the elections.

“This rally is just the beginning,” emphasized Robinson. “We must channel our passion into action by mobilizing and voting for candidates who prioritize women’s rights and healthcare access.

Sawin echoed Robinson’s sentiments, stating, “Our voices matter at the ballot box. Let’s ensure our elected officials reflect our values and fight for reproductive justice.”

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Katie Paris, the founder of Red Wine & Blue, opened the session by emphasizing the gravity of the Senate vote. She pointed out that only two Republican senators voted in favor of the Right to Contraception Act, a stark indicator of the current political climate surrounding reproductive rights.

“We need to get loud about this,” Paris said. “This election is about common sense versus extremism, and we need everyone to know what’s at stake.

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The new law allows licensed Arizona doctors to obtain a temporary California medical license within five days of submitting the required documentation to the medical boards.

Nonprofit organizations like Essential Access and Red, Wine, and Blue will cover the associated fees for the procedures.

California Assemblyman James Gallagher, a Republican, voted against the bill, arguing it “is less about helping women than it is about Newsom’s shadow campaign for president.”

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“Creating the types of communities that we want to live in means reaching out with our hands and our hearts to our neighbors. When we come together to care for and support each other, we are unstoppable.”

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Robinson said in 1975, when she was just 15 years old, she endured a “back-alley abortion” when she was growing up in rural South Carolina.

Roe v. Wade had been decided two years earlier, but her mother didn’t know the U.S. Supreme Court had decided women had a fundamental right to access a safe, legal abortion. Robinson said after the procedure she went home and lost so much blood from the complications that she passed out.

“You’re probably thinking next that I was taken to the hospital. No, I was not. My mother nursed me back to health in our home.”

Robinson said she shares that ‘nightmare’ decades after the fact because she wants people to realize the same horrors could await women and girls who do not have access to safe abortion care, if they choose or need that option.“They risk being in a similar situation or worse without this care,” Robinson said.

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WOODSTOCK, Va. — A group of supporters in Warren County is prepared to support their neighbors in Shenandoah County fight against an effort to reverse school names back to their original Confederate names.

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Barbaro is a powerhouse who acknowledges being an introvert and needing to rise to the occasion and let her voice be heard when her son required additional support from the medical and school systems. What she found when she attended school board meetings in the district were that things were disturbingly amiss, and she knew she needed to up her level of involvement, which eventually led her to joining Red Wine & Blue.

Please share the origin of TroubleNation.

TroubleNation is a program started by Red Wine & Blue, a powerful grassroots network of half a million diverse suburban women working together to defeat extremism. Red Wine & Blue offers resources to learn about the issues impacting our communities, and provides ways to take action and get involved, primarily by training our members on relational (aka “friend to friend”) organizing. Suburban women have unique relationships and networks – we live rich, complex lives. Sharing our stories and having conversations about what matters most to us can be phenomenally impactful.

Red Wine & Blue was founded in 2019 by Katie Paris, an Ohio suburban mom, after feeling a personal responsibility to mobilize other suburban moms to do their part. Initially focused on building a network of women in Ohio, we expanded nationally in 2021, and now have organizers on the ground in each of our target states: Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

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A chubby white Chihuahua named Frankie came running when she rang the bell. Rebekah Rubenstein opened her door.

“I know who you are!” Rubenstein told Sidman. Rubenstein, who has three daughters, quickly told Sidman she plans to vote for her and will bring her 8-year-old daughter to the polls to be part of a moment she described as critical.

“For my children to be able to have the right — now, in the future, any time — to make the choices about their own bodies is essential,” Rubenstein said. “So that’s 100% in the forefront of my vote.”

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Ohio’s abortion vote comes just one year before voters head back to the polls for both a presidential and Senate election. Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown is up for re-election next year, but faces a tough bid for a fourth term in a state that has increasingly veered to the right in statewide elections. In 2022, Republicans JD Vance and Mike DeWine won their Senate and gubernatorial races, respectively.

Brown highlighted the difference between his and his opponent’s stances on abortion when asked about his takeaways from Ohio’s Tuesday election.

The election “tells me that Ohioans understand that women and doctors should make that decision, not politicians in Columbus,” Brown said. “All three of my opponents are for a national abortion ban, and they are out of step with the reality in my state.”

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