Sometimes, you have to decide which side you’re on, and now is the time to make your choice: do you stand with women, or stand in the way? Enough is enough. It’s time to make fairness, opportunity and reproductive freedom for women a reality in our country. Through our Stand with Women or Stand in the Way campaign, we are demanding that our elected representatives guarantee equal rights when it comes to fair treatment on the job, health care and having families. It’s a simple choice: Stand with women by taking action to advance fairness, opportunity and freedom… or stand in the way. Which side do you stand on? Take a stand for women in North Carolina by signing our petition against unnecessary regulation of women's rights in our state.

Mayor Berry says he passed his"equal pay for women in ABQ" ordinance because “it is time we start incentivizing the result we want." But, it rewards companies who agree to "pay women at least within 10 percent of what they pay men in comparable jobs."

These restrictions include humiliating women via forced ultrasounds or insulting their intelligence through laws that require them to wait 24 hours or make them watch a video before getting the procedure. If a woman wants to comply with her religious beliefs regarding abortion, her choice is simple: Do not get one. Men have also successfully prevented birth control from being covered by the ACA often citing "we don't use it so why should we have to pay for it" but then restrict choices for unwanted pregnancies. Religion is the red herring behind the real reason for these laws. The real reason: Men feel they must control women. This must stop. The way to stop it starts with you. I am petitioning you to immediately begin introducing bills that: • Require a man to have to wait 24 hours before getting a vasectomy. • Force men seeking vasectomies to sit through a video detailing the procedure and showing all the babies he isn't allowing to live because he's restricting his sperm cells. • Force men seeking vasectomies to have an ultrasound of his testicles and rectum. • Force men seeking a prescription for Viagra to have an ultrasound of his testicles and rectum every year. • Demand that vasectomies and Viagra not be covered by insurance under the ACA.

Honoring Judge Baugh with a Lifetime Achievement Award is disgraceful. With this award, the Yellowstone Bar Association is sending a dangerous message to sexual assault victims that they will not find justice in a court of law. Victim blaming has no place on a judge’s bench. After being censured by the Montana Supreme Court for his comments and suspended from the bench for 31 days, Judge Baugh stepped down and ended his 30 year career as a state judge. Prosecutors appealed the verdict in the original rape case and the teacher, Stacey Rambold, was re-sentenced. He is now serving 10 years in Montana State Prison. Rambold is appealing the sentence. Victims of sexual assault routinely face harassment and shaming when they come forward about their assault to seek justice. To honor a judge who blamed a child for her own assault is unconscionable. Judge Baugh’s actions on the bench cannot be rewarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

As a former victim of rape myself, I humbly accept the request to stand up as a local progressive, bypassing Washington, D.C., to make the voices of the nation's fathers, mothers, daughters, and sons heard. I am proud to assist the great silver state of Nevada on this journey as a leading, progressive conscious state who won't stand for allowing a statue of limitations on such a gross injustice as rape.

I am insulted that women's rights to privacy are being commandeered. We are not children who need to be protected by the Tennessee Legislature. Women can make choices and have the right to have a choice.

North Carolina lawmakers are considering two bills (HB 465/SB 604) that would undermine the right to safe, legal abortion in North Carolina. The legislation would prevent some health care facilities from providing abortions, block some trained physicians from providing abortions, and require women to wait 72 hours after first visiting a health care provider to obtain an abortion despite increase travel costs, additional childcare challenges, and more time needed off work that could put the procedure out of reach for some women. To stop these dangerous bills that would undermine the right to safe, legal abortion, lawmakers need to hear a groundswell of opposition from people across the state. Will you help?

My state, Tennessee, is a wonderful place to live. It's very peaceful and there are not many people around who might bother you. I'm very shocked by the Texas-like attempts to de-facto ban abortion by over-regulating abortion clinics, forcing them to shut them down. These regulations must be stopped.

I suggest that Sojourner Truth's face be used on the Twenty Dollar Bill, since much of the labor building this country was on the backs of Slaves, whom Sojourner Truth sought to deliver from their condition of involuntary servitude.

Despite comprising over half of New York State's population, no woman has ever had a seat in statewide budget negotiations. The "three men in a room" insider culture of Albany has come to define politics in the Empire State for many disillusioned voters. Now that the leader of a five-member legislative conference has broken the mold and been allowed into that room, we must shatter the glass ceiling and allow leaders from all legislative conferences, including the accomplished female leader of the 24-member Democratic State Senate conference, to ensure every New Yorker's voice is represented when it counts.

Government of India’s decision to ban director Leslie Udwin’s documentary ‘India’s Daughter’, which depicts the story of the brutal gang rape in Delhi in 2012, is a shameful act of suppression. The restraining order issued by the Government reinforces the stigma surrounding honest conversations about sexuality, patriarchy and a deeply pervasive culture of gender-based violence. We the undersigned – students, faculty, administrators, alumni and staff of the Indian Community at Harvard University – are infuriated, and condemn this action strongly and unequivocally. The voice of the rapist echoes the statements made by some of our political and religious leadership in the past and is a reflection of attitudes that normalize rape-culture. The denigrating comments of defence lawyers M.L Sharma and A.P Singh reveal that these abhorrent ideas transcend social and economic backgrounds. As fellow Indians, this leads us to question the patriarchal views we all inadvertently promote through our actions, words and silence - however subtle they may be. We bear collective responsibility for denying women the right to grow as individuals in a free society and occupy public space as equals - when we stop women from going out without male company, excuse men of the household from performing domestic chores, refuse to acknowledge marital rape, suppress women's professional aspirations, discriminate in their journey towards economic independence, and trivialize the voyeuristic gaze. As a society, we identify women not as individuals but overwhelmingly as daughters, mothers and wives of men in their lives. We perpetuate intellectual and social apartheid by promoting the idea that men have the prerogative to decide what women should and shouldn't do, can and can not do. The delay in judicial proceedings, inertia in working through the recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee, and reducing the number of Nirbhaya Centres are all continuing systemic failures in the face of a nationwide outcry. The scabs are coming off from a deep-seeded wound and the actions of agitated citizens are a manifestation of the outrage boiling over since the heinous crime. The way forward is to lead a committed, concerted effort to address the problem at its root and to not mask it with insecure chauvinism. The political perception of recent developments as an international embarrassment, rather than a motivation to acknowledge and confront the gravity of the situation, strikes a massive blow to the citizenry's faith in governance as an agency of public welfare. We want the Government of India with immediate effect, to open up an honest introspective conversation, and work through its policies to tackle gender violence. The country stands in solidarity with Nirbhaya and your silence, Prime Minister, is deafening.

Women helped build this nation. We are citizens. We gave birth to every citizen. We pay taxes. We fight for our nation, yet we are not included in our own Constitution! Paying women less than men who do the same work with the same expertise is wrong. All are supposed to be equal in our great nation! Let's make it happen.