Issue Position: Women's Issues

Issue Position

Advocacy for women's issues is a core commitment during Senator Watters' 4 terms in the Senate. During the 2010-12 sessions he fought back against Speaker O'Brien and Bill O'Connor's extremist attacks on women's health care, and economic security and reproductive rights. I am running for the Senate committed to defend and move forward again on women's issues.

He sponsored and supported important legislation for women's economic security, rights, and health care:
Cosponsored the New Hampshire Paycheck Fairness Act.
Cosponsored "Joshua's Law," establishing domestic abuse as a discreet crime.
Prime sponsor of SB 348, establishing a commission on child sexual abuse prevention education.
Supported SB 319, the Clinic buffer zone act.
Supported the New Hampshire Health Protection Act, expanding coverage to over 50,000 low-income citizens and ensuring coverage of women's health needs.
Supported raising the New Hampshire minimum wage.
Supported the bipartisan budget with funding for education, mental health, and job training.
Prime sponsor of bills to increase workforce and facilitate other housing development.
Supported increased funding for schools, the USNH, CCSNH, and Career and Technical Education Centers, with an emphasis on increasing enrollment of women in STEM fields.
Prime sponsor of legislation to refocus and strengthen the Governor's Commission on Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention, Intervention & Treatment, with an effort to fully fund its programs.
Prime sponsor of bills to provide a clean and healthy environment, with a special emphasis on adaptation to global warming and sea-level rise

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