WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Women are fighting for equal rights around the globe. The United States still struggles with many issues, including maternity leave, childcare, abortion, and more.

Women's Suffrage

• In 1920, the 19th Amendment was added to the
• Constitution, guaranteeing all American women the right to vote.

Americans divide 50% "pro-choice," 44% "pro-life" on abortion.

• Hillary Clinton is Pro-Choice.
• Plans to combat campus sexual assault.
• Paid family leave, affordable child care, and on-campus care & scholarships for student parents.
• Plans to continue current Planned Parenthood funding.
• Aims to protect the Affordable Care Act.

• Donald Trump considers himself Pro-Life with exceptions.
• Change Republican platfrom: Allow abortion when mother's life in threatened, incest, & rape.
• Suggests "some kind of punishment" for women who have abortions, if it's criminalized.
• Views company in-house childcare as an inexpensive and easy request.
• Supports defunding Planned Parenthood.

• Bernie Sanders is Pro-Choice.
• Aims to expand funding for Planned Parenthood.
• Promises to only nominate supreme court justices who support Roe v. Wade.
• Provide 12 weeks of paid family leave, 2 weeks paid vacation, 1 week paid sick leave.
• Voted against HR 1833, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1995.