They Came for Nurses. What They’re Really Coming for Is Women’s Power—and Your Healthcare.

Photo: In many rural counties, nurse midwives are the only maternity care providers. Photo credit: Javier de la Maza via Unsplash. Opinion article by Ms. Editors. Ms. Magazine – December 3, 2025.

In a quiet regulatory maneuver with seismic consequences, the U.S. Department of Education—under the direction of Republican members of Congress—has proposed reclassifying all graduate nursing degrees as “non-professional.” What sounds like an obscure bureaucratic shift is, in reality, a direct attack on the women who make up nearly the entire nursing workforce and who hold together America’s fraying healthcare system. […]

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