Women's Rights Leaders Hold Press Conference in Sacramento to Address Upcoming Elections

Sacramento Press: Women’s Rights and Access to Abortion and Birth Control at Stake November 2, by Raquel Simental:

Representatives from more than 40 women rights organizations and women leaders throughout California held press conferences today in Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles to urge women to vote on November 2nd to ensure women’s rights stay intact.

Women leaders at the Sacramento press conference were Janice Rocco, southwest regional director of California NOW; Genevieve Shiroma, SMUD board member; and Deborah Ortiz, Vice President of Public Affairs for California, Planned Parenthood Advocates Mar Monte and a former State Senator.

Voting this election cycle is crucial to ensure California women to continue to have access to abortion and family planning as well as pay equity, women’s rights in the workplace and equal marriage rights. California needs more women running for office, but women candidates like Meg Whitman, running for Governor, and Carly Fiorina, running for US Senator, have made it clear women’s rights are not a priority for them. . . .