Issue Position: Women's Rights - Reproductive Rights and Access to Reproductive Health Care

Issue Position

As you are aware, abortion is a difficult and divisive issue, but one on which I have a firm position. I am pro-choice and support the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which protects a woman's right to reproductive health and freedom. I believe that the abortions protected by that decision should be rare and safe, but that it should be a decision made between a woman, her family and her doctor, based on her own health and circumstances.

I also strongly support domestic and international family planning to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions worldwide and to save lives. I believe that all women, abroad and in the U.S., should be free to make their own reproductive health care decisions and should have access to legal, safe, and affordable contraception. In addition, I support efforts to reduce unwanted pregnancies, particularly teenage pregnancies.

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