Issue Position: Protecting Women and Women's Rights

Issue Position

I am fully supportive of a woman's right to choose and will fight against any government intrusion into the efforts of a woman to control her own body and life. Indeed, my first speech as a member of the legislature was against a bill that would deny women the ability to purchase insurance on our health exchanges that would cover abortion. However, to me, Women's Rights is about more than laws about abortion. Women face special health, economic and legal challenges that men do not; I support efforts to remedy these problems. I am a proud member of the Women's Health Caucus and have cosponsored a variety of pro-woman and pro-family legislation, including pay equity, increase eligibility for breast and cervical cancer screenings, enhanced protections for domestic violence victims and more. I've also attended numerous Planned Parenthood rallies and spoken repeatedly in favor of the services that they provide. I will fight, tooth and nail, against any effort to defund Planned Parenthood.

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