Women's Rights

Joe Biden (D)

• Pro-choice stance
• Doesn’t support the Hyde Amendment
• Pass the Equal Rights Amendment
• Believes equal pay for women is "common sense"
• Provide for the unique needs of incarcerated women
• Reauthorize and strengthen the Violence Against Women Act

Michael Bloomberg (D)

• Pro-choice stance

Pete Buttigieg (D)

• Pro-choice stance
• Repeal the Hyde Amendment
• Increase access to comprehensive reproductive health care
• Called the gender wage gap "an embarrassment to our country"
• Supports the Paycheck Fairness Act
• Immediately make public the total pay gap at every large company
• Pass anti-harassment laws and gender nondiscrimination laws for the workplace

Tulsi Gabbard (D)

• Pro-choice stance
• Supports the Paycheck Fairness Act

Amy Klobuchar (D)

• Pro-choice stance
• Believes limits in the third trimester protecting the health of the woman are important
• Ensure funding for Planned Parenthood
• Prohibit states from setting restrictions on abortion
• Supports the Paycheck Fairness Act, the FAMILY Act, and the Equal Rights Amendment
• Believes in equal opportunity to enter male dominated fields
• Put rules in place to prevent pay discrimination

Bernie Sanders (D)

• Pro-choice stance
• Fully fund Planned Parenthood, Title X, and other initiatives that protect women’s health, access to contraception, and the availability of a safe and legal abortion
• Opposes all efforts to undermine Roe v. Wade and will appoint federal judges who will uphold women’s rights
• Pass the Equal Rights Amendment
• Repeal the Hyde Amendment
• Fight to end sexual harassment in the workplace, the military, and other institutions
• Immediately reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act

Tom Steyer (D)

• Pro-choice stance
• Supports Roe v. Wade

Donald Trump (R)

• Pro-life stance
• Opposes late stage abortions
• Opposes abortions except in the cases of rape, incest, and when the health of the mother is at risk
• Prohibited clinics that provide abortion services from receiving government funding
• Supports equal pay in theory but believes in reality it's difficult

Joe Walsh (R)

• Believes no exceptions should exist in abortion laws

Elizabeth Warren (D)

• Pro-choice stance
• Guarantee the right to an abortion described in Roe v. Wade through a federal statute
• Push Congress to repeal restrictions on when federal funds can pay for abortion
• Prevent states from passing laws that restrict abortion access
• Supports the Paycheck Fairness Act, FAMILY Act, and the Equal Rights Amendment

Bill Weld (R)

• Pro-choice stance
• Supports legal access to abortion
• Declared that federal government should not have a say on abortion rights