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June 12th, 2025
We Couldn’t Have Done it Without You — Thank You for Making This Year’s Annual Luncheon Truly Unforgettable!
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Thank you to our supporters, sponsors, and partners for helping us make the 43rd Annual Luncheon our best event to date!
A round of applause for our generous sponsors!
Presidential
Katherine Hayes, Terry Saario, Ellen Wiese
Congressional
Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota, Suzanne Greenleaf, Melisa López Franzen, Midwest Values PAC, Wendy Nelson, Summitt PAC, Tim Walz for Governor
Gubernatorial
Kathleen W. Bryant, Colleen Carey & Pamela Endean, Lili Hall, Lockridge Grindal Nuaen, Missy Staples Thompson, Mary Tjosvold
Mayoral
Tanya Bell, Karen Desnick, Emma Faris, Follow the North Star PAC, Mary Graf, Suzanne Greenleaf, Rachel Hollstadt, Karen Hudson, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Mary Lynne Perushek, Susan Sands, Winthrop & Weinstine, Women’s Foundation of MN, Vote Run Lead Action
Table Captain
BETTY PAC, Richard Carlbom, Erin Dady, DFL Senate Caucus, Gayle Fuguitt, Ally Shuman, Carol B. Truesdell
Event Partners
The Depot, Puke Rainbows, Margo & Co Events, 5ive, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Vote Run Lead Action, Lisa Miller, Legacy AV, Marla Olivia Photography
And, thank you for making our private event with secretary Deb Haaland a success!
We are deeply grateful to everyone who joined us and generously supported our private event with Secretary Deb Haaland. Thanks to you, we raised over $20,000 in support of her campaign for New Mexico Governor — a powerful testament to the strength and commitment of this community.
The evening was filled with meaningful moments, especially the stories shared by Native leaders from Minnesota. Their voices were empowering, courageous, and a vital reminder of the importance of centering Indigenous leadership in the movement for reproductive justice. We are honored to have created a space where these stories could be heard, celebrated, and uplifted. Thank you to our Executive Director and former Virginia, MN City Councilor, Nevada Littlewolf, Senator Mary Kunesh and Representative Heather Keeler!
Thank you Oshkii Giizhik Singers and Prairie Rose Seminole for bringing songs.
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From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for helping make both this event and our Annual Luncheon such a success.
Trump Revokes Guidance Requiring Hospitals to Provide Life-Saving Emergency Abortions
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On Tuesday, June 3, the Trump administration announced that it would rescind guidelines to U.S. hospitals directing them to provide emergency abortions when necessary to save a woman’s life.
Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)—a federal law passed in 1986—hospital emergency rooms are required to give patients life-saving and stabilizing care, including medically necessary abortions. On Tuesday, Trump revoked Biden-era guidance requiring hospitals to provide needed abortions under EMTALA even in states where abortion is illegal or restricted. The Biden administration first issued the guidance surrounding emergency abortions in 2022, just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision.
Abortion restrictions are already associated with significantly higher risks of maternal mortality. Since Dobbs, at least 10 women have died after being denied abortions that would have saved their lives when they were suffering from miscarriages. By revoking the federal guidance allowing patients to access life-saving abortion care even in states with abortion bans, Trump is paving the way for even more women’s deaths around the country.
Since 2022, right-wing lawmakers and conservative organizations have been claiming that EMTALA doesn’t cover abortions and fighting to keep it from applying in their states. Starting in August 2022, Idaho challenged EMTALA in a case that made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, in Texas, Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt of the Fifth Circuit ruled in 2024 that, “EMTALA does not provide an unqualified right for the pregnant mother to abort her child especially when EMTALA imposes equal stabilization obligations.”
As Jessica Valenti points out, this definition of “equal stabilization” implies that hospitals must treat fetuses as “equal” to pregnant patients.
This is the same logic that has led to the numerous deaths of women in abortion-ban states since 2022, when legal abortion restrictions prevent hospitals from providing abortion care, even when a fetus is nonviable, with no chance of survival, and a life-threatening pregnancy is killing the mother. Significantly, these deaths occurred even when hospitals were required to provide abortions under EMTALA, a requirement that is no longer in place with Trump’s revocation of the guidance for hospitals in states that restrict abortion.
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Egyptian Feminist’s Perspective: ICE is Rioting
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Watching the violence that the Trump regime has unleashed in Los Angeles, it is enraging to hear commentators urge protestors to be “peaceful” and not “riot” in the face of the full force of State-sanctioned violence.
Why is the onus on protestors to be "peaceful" when the State brings violence? Why is "rioting" used to malign only the people fighting violence initiated by the State and its agents, and not those agents and that State? Why isn't ICE described as rioting?
Those questions matter to me as a victim of State-sanctioned violence and as a feminist who insists on unpacking who has the right to violence and when.
In 2011, the Egyptian regime sent their plain clothes agents to entrap me at the front line of a protest and hold me until riot police arrived to do their job. The protest began in response to soldiers and police burning tents erected in Tahrir Square by families of people killed by state forces during the revolution in Egypt that year.
The air was thick with so much tear gas, our eyes and lips burned for hours. Snipers on surrounding rooftops shot several protestors in the eyes. Police and soldiers killed more than 40 people, and injured more than 300, including me.
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📌 Vote Run Lead Action Women’s Leadership Conference
* Are you looking to make a bigger impact in your community? Whether you're thinking about running for office, joining a local board, or advocating for the issues that matter most to you — this training is your next step. Join Vote Run Lead Action on Saturday, June 28 in Owatonna for the Women’s Leadership Conference, a hands-on, values-driven workshop designed for women and gender-expansive leaders. During the session, we’ll walk through “20 Steps to Political Action” — a practical, beginner-friendly guide to navigating your local political landscape, building your leadership capacity, and taking action with confidence. * Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025
* Time: 10AM – 12PM
* Location: Grapeful Wine Bar, 306 North Cedar Ave, Suite 2, Owatonna, MN
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📌 Abortion Access Community Resources from OurJustice
* From locating a clinic to finding childcare or transportation, we know it can be overwhelming to arrange everything necessary to access an abortion. Women Winning partner, OurJustice, has collected lists of community resources and services so that it’s easier to get the care you need.
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📌 Buy Tickets to Zurawski V. Texas, a Documentary Produced by Hillary & Chelsea Clinton!
* * Women denied abortions under Texas’ ambiguous and unforgiving abortion bans band together with a fearless attorney to sue Texas. While battling in court against the state and its immovable Attorney General, the extent of their traumatic experiences is revealed as they wrestle to regain their reproductive futures and set a precedent for millions of other women and families. ZURAWSKI V TEXAS reveals the dire impact of losing access to healthcare—and the extraordinary efforts of the women and men fighting on the frontline to regain those rights. Find a link to the trailer here [[link removed]] .
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