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Issue Position: Women's Health and Equal Pay for Equal Work

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2018
Issues: Women Employment and Affirmative Action Health and Health Care

Throughout the past year I have spent countless hours in OB's offices with my wife, Amanda, in anticipation of our son, Boone. And in those nine months, something became very clear to me: those doctor offices are small and there is no room for anyone other than a woman, a doctor, and a supportive spouse.

In Congress, I will fight to keep the government out of intimate healthcare decisions between a woman and her doctor and I will oppose efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and other women's health resources.

Beyond healthcare, I will always support policies that advance women's equality in the workplace. In South Carolina, women make less than 80% of what men do for the exact same work. This is unacceptable. I will always support efforts to close the gender wage gap once and for all: equal pay for equal work should not be controversial.


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