The Academy should revoke Harvey Weinstein's membership and send a strong message that sexual predatory behavior will not be tolerated. Survivors of sexual violence and harassment deserve better.

I'm furious about this. Have these people no mothers, daughters, wives, women friends? Do they not care about women's health at all? Do they have no sense of cause and effect, i.e. no birth control leads to more unintended pregnancies leads to more (back-alley) abortions. I read that the military spends millions of dollars on Viagra for its personnel, but the government won't fund this basic element of women's health care. ENOUGH.

Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos, announced that she wants to strip away protections for sexual assault survivors on college campuses. Secretary Devos is siding with rapists over sexual assault survivors on campus and that is outright dangerous. When 1 in 4 women on campus are assaulted during their college careers, it is a national crisis. But we can still stop her. She is currently taking comments from the public before these new rules are finalized. You can be sure rape apologist groups like the National Coalition for Men are mobilizing on sites like Reddit to submit comments. We have to make sure more of us speak out than them. Can you submit a comment now?

We believe for things to change in this country laws need to pass. Attitudes have changed (for the most part) it is time for laws to follow to end gender inequality in our nation!

When I heard about this excision of women's reproductive rights from the Democratic platform, this felt worse to me, than tRump's and the Republicans' misogyny towards women, because this is a betrayal from those of whom we expect better. Women form 85% of those in the progressive political marches and local progressive political grass roots movements. Join me in withholding donations from the Democratic Party, until they fully support a woman's right to a basic health care decision -- the right to choose contraceptive and reproductive options, including abortion.

I recently read that the DCCC was drafting candidates that did not have to pass a litmus test for a pro-choice position. We already had a SCOTUS position stolen from us, and the Democratic Party cannot backtrack on a woman's right to control her own body.

We must hold our allies accountable, and demand that the leaders of our party do better.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos wants to dismantle protections for campus sexual assault survivors. Last week she met with rape-deniers and so-called "men's rights activists" to help her do it, and her top civil rights official, Candice Jackson, called campus sexual assault survivors liars. Jackson told the New York Times, "the accusations — 90 percent of them — fall into the category of ‘we were both drunk,’ ‘we broke up, and six months later I found myself under a Title IX investigation because she just decided that our last sleeping together was not quite right.’" The next day DeVos sat down with groups like the National Coalition for Men, who are known for blaming rape survivors for their assaults and publishing personal information about them, so survivors are harassed and intimidated into dropping their cases. The Department’s true colors are showing. If Secretary DeVos faces a huge backlash after these meetings, we'll put her on notice that we won't stand by while she works with rape apologists to dismantle protections for sexual assault survivors. Will you add your name now to demand Secretary DeVos start listening to survivors, not rape apologists?

New York's Health + Hospitals (formerly referred to as HHC) is reducing the role of midwives in labor and birth for low income families across the 10 hospitals H+H operates. However, midwives are associated with excellent health outcomes for mothers and babies and higher patient satisfaction, as they give more hours of attention to each patient and family, and are more cost efficient than hiring additional doctors. [1] Cutting midwives would hurt New York’s low income and immigrant families.  As midwives who have worked in this system, we understand that H+H may be facing real problems--but midwives are a part of the solution. At a moment when our health care and our lower income and immigrant communities are under attack on the federal level, New York City can and must be a leader in pursuing thoughtful policy alternatives. We can't afford thoughtless measures that would hurt our communities and our health care. Source: 1. http://www.thelancet.com/series/midwifery

DPR rules state that a team must be made up of 7 men and 3 women, with no flexibility to increase the number of female players allowed in play at a time. My team was in a situation where we had six men and 4 women present and ready to play and the umpire made us bench a woman and ask a man watching in the stands to play in her place. I do not fault the umpire in this situation, as he was enforcing the set rules of this league, but I do fault the league for imposing discriminatory practices against female players. In co-ed sports teams, many times you have to have minimum ratios in place to ensure a fair game. The minimum ratios, however, are usually in place to ensure female players equal opportunity to participate. By imposing mandatory maximums for both male and female players--and one that is so un-even with women making up just 30% of a team--DPR is creating a culture of inequality and discrimination against women. In a response to my request to switch from a maximum number of female players to a minimum gender ratio rule, DPR doubled down saying that this discriminatory rule was necessary for a "competitive" league. Is DPR implying that women cannot be competitive in co-ed sports? Tell them girls are good at sports too.

To demand that DNC leadership immediately put leaders from the reproductive health, rights and justice field in positions of decision making authority at the DNC. We ask that this be more than one person and that women of color reproductive justice leaders be among these appointees. We also ask that the party recommit publicly to centralizing support of champions and candidates with stellar reproductive health voting records in the party priorities.

I am deeply concerned that we women will be pushed more and more to the end of the line when it comes to issues that should concern every female in this Country and in the entire world. We women must stay strong and fight against laws that will push us back centuries.