New Political Climate Demands Increased Efforts to Protect Women’s Health, Promote Women’s Economic Security
Women's health and reproductive rights are under full attack by the Trump-Pence administration and the anti-choice majority in
Whether politicians acknowledge it or not, when women's access to health care and family planning resources are attacked, so is their economic security. In response to a new political environment that is hostile to women's health and reproductive rights, a new report by the
"Reproductive health and rights are inextricably linked with economic security. You cannot have one without the other," said
As outlined in CAP's report, a comprehensive agenda to strengthen women's health and economic security must include five key pillars:
1. Self-determination, or a person's ability to control her body, health, and resources in order to pursue opportunity free from violence or coercion.
2. Access to comprehensive health services, including abortion care.
3. Affordability of care, especially for low-income and uninsured women.
4. Parenting with dignity and respect, including the ability to access maternal health and child care options that allow women to effectively parent, and to live free of sexual and domestic violence.
5. Workplace and caregiving supports, including access to high-quality, affordable child care, affordable higher education, and workplace benefits and protections such as equal pay, paid leave, and caregiving supports.
"Having equitable access to reproductive health care so that women can control their bodies and plan their families is the first step in ensuring that they can also plan for their careers and have equitable access to economic opportunities," said
Although the political environment has shifted under the Trump-Pence administration and anti-choice majority in
Read the report: "The Pillars of Equity: A Vision for Economic Security and Reproductive Justice" by
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