Connecticut Democrats are committed to ensuring full equality for women. Like the majority of Americans and Connecticut residents, we 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.

As Connecticut Democrats, we are committed to protecting and advancing reproductive rights. We believe sexual and reproductive rights are human rights, and we 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. We are also committed to reestablishing safe birthing centers in communities where labor and delivery units no longer exist.

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

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