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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/they-came-for-nurses-what-theyre-really-coming-for-is-womens-power-and-your-healthcare/
- Published: 2025-12-05T09:00:00-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at www.news.msmagazine.com Related articles: The Trump administration removed nursing from the list of professional degree programs, affecting aspiring nurses’ student loan access. – Politifact Ohio nurses, students sound alarm over federal loan rule – Spectrum News What is All the Buzz About Nursing No Longer Being Designated as a Professional Program? – National Nurses United