Women's Reproductive Rights

BIRTH CONTROL

pills

• HELP women with severe menstrual symptoms
• Around 95% SUCCESS rate in preventing pregnancy
• Most unwanted pregnancies occur because of INCONSISTENCIES in taking birth control, NOT because the pill did not work

pills

• Accessibility: prescription can be $15-$50 PER MONTH
• Most MALE CONTRACEPTIVES, including condoms, can be easily bought at a drugstore
• Most Americans support birth control's use, but its inclusion as preventative health care is STILL DEBATED BY LEGISLATORS

ABORTION

Being pro choice

• Being pro choice means that you support a women's right to choose what to do with their bodies and their pregnancies, even if their choice means an abortion

planned parenthood

• Planned Parenthood, though frequently demonized in the news, is primarily a women's health organization whose services, the vast majority of the time, do not include abortions. They perform cancer scans, teach about sexual health, provide contraceptives, and many other services specifically for women.

MANDATING PAID FAMILY LEAVE

What is Paid Family Leave

• Paid Family Leave is a system that provides paid leave and benefits for employees when the employees have a new born, newly adopted/fostered child, or a severely sick child or relative

WHY WE NEED mandated PAID FAMILY LEAVE

• Paid Family Leave is necessary for anyone who needs to care for their family in times of need
• The United States part of a minority of countries that do NOT provide federally mandated paid family leave
• This can cause employees, mothers in particular, to struggle with savings, and even lose or fail to get a job

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Find out more at

• https://www.hhs.gov/opa/reproductive-health/index.html
• https://nwlc.org/issue/health-care-reproductive-rights/
• https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/birth-control/facts-birth-co...
• http://www.edd.ca.gov/Disability/Paid_Family_Leave.htm