Issue Position: Protecting Women's Rights

Issue Position

Protecting Women's Rights

Women's issues are the issues that impact our day-to-day lives, interfere with our ability to earn a living and that take time away from our families. They include funding for schools, finding transportation solutions, ensuring our children and communities are safe from gun violence, and access to affordable health care.

I support equal pay for women. On average, women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. The number is even lower for women of color. It has been more than 50 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law making it illegal to pay unequal wages to men and women who do the same or equal work. It is time to end the wage gap.

I believe we must protect a woman's right to make her own health care decisions, including choices about contraception.

I am a strong voice against the passage of bills that attempt to limit a woman's access to health care or that attempt to close clinics that provide life saving cancer screenings.

Women should make their health care decisions with their doctors not their legislators.

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