Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Powered by MomsRising)
Sep 28, 2026 · 58 min · 9 segments
On the radio show this week, we start by discussing how essential access to comprehensive reproductive health care is to everyone. After that, we dive into the work of a new support group: Leaving…
Kristin Rowe-FinkbeinerHostJuliana ForlanoGuestTy Jones CoxGuestJuana Rosa CaveroGuestJamie WorkerGuestWe have the importance of the access to the full suite of reproductive health care front and center every day in every community.
And all above all was founded specifically with a very important, very positive goal.
When we look at abortion care, we see that moms are among the people who are most likely to need access to abortion care.
And when we look at polling, the majority of people across the entire United States of America support access to abortion coverage.
Pretty much every time access to abortion has been on the ballot at the state level, red state, blue states, purple states, it has been either protected or advanced.
abortion access, right? And so it's not just what polls say, it's what people do when they vote.
So I want to talk a little bit about what's at stake right now, all above all.
How can people get involved? What campaigns are you doing? I have so many questions because this is such an important topic.
But let's start out with your campaign in this moment at all above all.
Well, I think that the big thing right now that we're really trying to get folks engaged in, and this is an opportunity to go out to our website and click our action link so that you can contact your member of Congress, is to get the Hyde Amendment repealed.
And so what is the Hyde Amendment? The Hyde Amendment is a current provision that Congress passes every year, goes through a lot of effort to put this into our federal budget.
And all it does is restrict access to abortion care for folks, especially folks living in poverty, but federal employees, Indigenous communities that receive care through Indian Health Services, everybody on Medicaid, Medicare, anybody getting CHIP, which is a child Medicaid program, Folks in federal prisons, especially women in detention centers as well.
I mean, it's a provision that Congress proactively puts into our budget every year.
And the simple fixes do not do it to repeal that amendment and take it out and spend our time and energy on something useful and relevant.
Right now we have represented by Yana Presley is leading this effort and Senator Duckworth on the Senate side.
We have the importance of the access to the full suite of reproductive health care front and center every day in every community.
And all above all was founded specifically with a very important, very positive goal.
When we look at abortion care, we see that moms are among the people who are most likely to need access to abortion care.
And when we look at polling, the majority of people across the entire United States of America support access to abortion coverage.
Pretty much every time access to abortion has been on the ballot at the state level, red state, blue states, purple states, it has been either protected or advanced.
abortion access, right? And so it's not just what polls say, it's what people do when they vote.
So I want to talk a little bit about what's at stake right now, all above all.
How can people get involved? What campaigns are you doing? I have so many questions because this is such an important topic.
But let's start out with your campaign in this moment at all above all.
Well, I think that the big thing right now that we're really trying to get folks engaged in, and this is an opportunity to go out to our website and click our action link so that you can contact your member of Congress, is to get the Hyde Amendment repealed.
And so what is the Hyde Amendment? The Hyde Amendment is a current provision that Congress passes every year, goes through a lot of effort to put this into our federal budget.
And all it does is restrict access to abortion care for folks, especially folks living in poverty, but federal employees, Indigenous communities that receive care through Indian Health Services, everybody on Medicaid, Medicare, anybody getting CHIP, which is a child Medicaid program, Folks in federal prisons, especially women in detention centers as well.
I mean, it's a provision that Congress proactively puts into our budget every year.
And the simple fixes do not do it to repeal that amendment and take it out and spend our time and energy on something useful and relevant.
Right now we have represented by Yana Presley is leading this effort and Senator Duckworth on the Senate side.
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