After Helene, mothers held their infants tight as they swam to safety. Held their toddlers close as tree limbs crashed through their roofs. Held their teenagers fiercely after witnessing death. From raging fires to record floods, more families across the U.S. are experiencing devastating impacts of the climate crisis. We went to North Carolina to see how mothers carry on when their world comes crashing down. Sometimes they hold each other.

For years, right-wing extremists have abused the courts to reshape American policy. Democracy Forward has stepped up to fight back for abortion access, labor rights, freedom of speech, and basic democratic freedoms in courtrooms across the country. They say there’s no community too small to be worth fighting for.

A queer Black doula from Albany, Georgia. A white business consultant and mother of four with deep New Orleans roots. On paper, Park Cannon and Aimee Adatto Freeman don’t appear to have much in common. But in state capitols 500 miles apart, both are working to make pregnancy and birth a little safer in their states, which are home to some of the worst maternal mortality rates and strictest abortion laws in the country.

“We always felt like we were a part of a system that was not designed for us.”

“It has implications for everyone’s practice and everyone’s personal life.”

Severe restrictions on abortion access could increase maternal mortality rates, worsen the existing crisis of a lack of OB-GYNs in the state, increase economic strain on families, and more.

Gray is in her second trimester of pregnancy when the pandemic hits home. As the world turns upside down, Gray's experience of becoming a mother is shaped in ways she could never have imagined. "Still, Life" follows the path to parenthood during a global crisis and nurturing new life in a year of so much death.