“It is time for the elected representatives in Congress, and in state houses across the country, to protect the right to privacy and a woman’s right to abortion services—rather than attack it, undermine it and try to eliminate it.”
Author: Rep. Carolyn Maloney
Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s career has been a series of firsts. She is the first woman to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District; the first woman to represent New York City’s 7th Councilmanic district, where she was the first woman to give birth while in office; and was the first woman to Chair the Joint Economic Committee. Maloney is the author of Rumors of our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why Women’s Lives Aren’t Getting any Easier and How We Can Make Real Progress for Ourselves and Our Daughters, which has been used as a textbook in women’s studies courses. She is the former co-chair of the Women's Caucus and has authored and passed more than 70 measures, including legislation providing annual mammograms for women on Medicare, increasing funding for law enforcement to process rape kits and creating Women’s Health Offices in five Federal agencies.
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