Women

    notice: This section will encompass both women through gender identity (cis women, trans women, trans femme) and sexual assignment (people assigned female at birth who displayed external sexual characteristics of a female). Not all topics will apply to every identity.

    Pregnancy Termination

    Choosing to end a pregnancy is never a simple decision for the people involved and comes with a variety of factors to consider including safety, morality and ethics, family, and health. It is a personal choice for the pregnant person to make and all avenues should be open for people to make the best choices for themselves. No government is capable of legislating morality, only actions.

    Learn about digital privacy and security regarding abortion

    Public Health

    The budget resolution bill that gives tax breaks to billionaires cuts more than $880 billion in medicate.

    Women makke up the majority of adults who rely on medicare for primary and preventative care

    In Trump's DEI executive order, he slashes the study and data being collected by the CDC's Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System. This program has been around since 1988 and attributed for improving outcomes for babies and mothers.

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    SAVE Act

    The right for women to vote is only a little over 100 years old - and enshrined only through constitutional amendments. Women’s place in democracy is not guaranteed and requires active participation to protect and expand their equality.

    What

    The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act required people to present in-person documentation as proof of citizenship to vote.

    Who cares

    Any woman who has changed her name, even if simply through marriage to take her partner's last name, is at risk of losing her ability to register to vote

    But what are the pros?

    Supporters say this will prevent residents who have entered "illegally" from voting in elections, despite there being sufficient evidence that this is happening. Additionally, the law already states noncitizens are ineligible to vote and require information like a social security number to register. This title is clearly rhetorical.

    What about the cons

    • 69 million women in America who have taken their spouse's name will have issues confirming their identity.
    • This will require extra spending for women to register to vote including paying for passports, copies of marriage certificates, or other administrate costs.
    • The bill is so abiguous that it doesn't clarify if and how marriage certificates will be counted as official doccuments. It will vary state by state.
    These might all seem like trivial costs, but they all add up. There is also time delays and administrative inconvenience and burden at each step that creates more obstacles and discouragement to voting.

    - Tracy Thomas, University of Akron constituional law profesor

    Couldn't they make an ammedment to provide an exception for this specific case for women.

    They could...and the fact that the bill doesn't address this should be answer enough.

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