WOMEN’S RIGHTS

I am committed to ensuring full equality for women. Like the majority of Americans and Connecticut residents, I also unequivocally believe that everyone should be able to access high-quality reproductive health care services, including the choice to have a safe and legal abortion.

I am committed to protecting and advancing reproductive rights. I believe sexual and reproductive rights are human rights, and I will always fight to ensure access to the full spectrum of comprehensive healthcare services, especially for people with low-incomes, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and those from underserved areas. I am also committed to reestablishing safe birthing centers in communities where labor and delivery units no longer exist.

I will fight to end gender discrimination in the areas of education, employment, health care, and any other area of life. I will combat biases across economic, political, and social life that hold women back and limit their opportunities.

I also strongly believe in the necessity to continue to:

● Work to end the scourge of domestic violence, including coercive control.

● Affirm our stance to believe and support those who have been sexually assaulted or harassed.

● Identify and prevent situations of exploitation and human trafficking.

● Fight for workplace equity.

● Demand pay equity.

● Support our federal legislators’ work to guarantee equal rights for women under the law by making the Equal Rights Amendment part of the U.S. Constitution.

● Elect more women to public office.

We must continue to aggressively confront all forms of violence against women.