Each year for her birthday, Heather Martell puts out a call asking for donations to an organization that has played a “life-saving” role in her life: Planned Parenthood.

Heather has a history of complicated reproductive health issues and says the doctors, nurses, and social workers at Planned Parenthood have always been caring, considerate, and helpful in her decision-making and connections over the years—from answering everyday health questions to getting her the help she needed when she was miscarrying and hemorrhaging for days.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says if Donald Trump returns to the White House, the Trump administration would defund Planned Parenthood—largely because of the reproductive health care organizations’ support of abortion rights.
For years, Republicans in Wisconsin’s state legislature and in Congress have tried to take away this access to health care.

Planned Parenthood leaders in the state say when these lawmakers talk about “defunding” their organization, they really mean blocking patients, many who depend on public health care funding like Medicaid, from getting necessary health care.

🎥 /✏️ : Salina Heller

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Trump’s tariff plan would raise prices and ‘reduce the living standard of Americans,’ economists say. UpNorthNews Correspondent Khary has the details:

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Embarrassed and weary of Donald Trump's insults and treatment of groups of people, former Republican Lt. Gov. of Georgia Geoff Duncan, along with others in the group Republicans for Harris, brought warnings throughout Wisconsin. He says they're tired of making excuses for Trump's poor behavior.

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Now that President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans who ran on a platform of calling immigration an “invasion” have won their elections, the question turns to what kinds of policies they can actually pass in the next Congress—and do so without damaging an economy that depends on migrant labor for its stability.

The American Business Immigration Coalition is made up of more than 1,400 business members calling for immigration reform that is “sensible, economically important, politically smart, and morally right.” ABIC States Director Connor Gallivan said Monday on UpNorthNews Radio there are many ways to come at the challenge of immigration reform and border security—and one wrong way: mass deportation, something that would cripple nearly every sector of the US economy.

Gallivan said even if every American citizen without a job were to become employed, there would still be two million open jobs available.

✏️: Pat Kreitlow

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Brad Woodhouse, with Protect Our Care, reacts to Trump’s healthcare nominees, raising concerns about their records and commitment to the health and wellbeing of the American people.

Interviewed on UpNorthNews Radio, Woodhouse outlined several concerning figures beyond Robert Kennedy, Jr., the nominee of President-elect Trump to be secretary of health and human services, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, whose TV-friendly health advice is frequently incomplete or dangerous.

For example, former Florida congressman Dave Weldon, someone who, like Kennedy, shares anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, is Trump’s choice to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Marty Makary, Trump’s pick to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, embraced a view of the COVID-19 virus that would let many more sick and elderly people die so that younger, healthy people would contract COVID more quickly and build up immunity.

Former Fox News personality Janette Nesheiwat, Trump’s choice for Surgeon General, has spread anti-trans rhetoric and regularly promote dietary supplements she formulates and sells online.

And Jay Bhattacharya, Trump’s pick to be director of the National Institutes of Health, said COVID’s risks were overstated and called for a weakening of safety protocols in a pandemic that would go on to take the lives of more than 1 million Americans.

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