Jonathan actively supports wide-ranging rights for women, not just reproductive rights.

Wage equity regardless of sex must be respected, including equal pay for comparable work (not merely for identical jobs). Workers deserve a living wage nationwide. We must end America’s futile and destructive attempts to protect our jobs - including so many service jobs now held by low-paid women - by competing with the pay scales of the world’s poorest.

America must ensure that survivors of intimate violence receive social supports that are considerate, consistent, and ample to enable these women, children and men to grow past their suffering.

The nation needs to commit to real support for caregivers of our children and other dependents, ensuring income support for the neediest, and granting Social Security Retirement credit for years worked in homes as caregivers outside of the labor market.

-- Title IX civil rights need to be defended, not eroded!

Right To Choose

Roe v. Wade is the law--an established, well-founded legal precedent. Congress should not just support the Constitutional right to choose in general statements, but work actively to defend its implementation.

Jonathan is committed to defend the law through proposed legislation and through the power of advice and consent on judicial appointments.

But a just society requires that women not only have full rights of reproductive choice, but enjoy feasible opportunities to implement their choice. These opportunities need to include:

• The complete range of reproductive health services for women - health screening to reduce infertility, all pregnancy control options, and availability of abortion services
• Early pregnancy interventions such as Plan B, the program to allow the “morning-after pill”? that ends possible pregnancy to be available over-the-counter at pharmacies
• The FDA-approved RU 486 (the non-surgical, or medical, abortion drug), a program that has suffered since its inception from constant ideological interference

Jonathan is 100% supportive of civil rights for everyone. That means 100% support for the right of the individual to make their own decisions for his or her own body.