It's shameful that in 2015, women make 78 cents for every dollar a man earns. And that wage disparity is even higher among minority groups. Latinas make $0.54 and black women make $0.64 for every dollar a white man makes. Over a 40-year career, the average woman loses out on $431,000 -- and that number is nearly doubled for women of color. These wage gaps represent more than short-term losses. It represents a lifetime of being devalued in the workplace. It's past the time for all that to change! Equal pay for women is the right thing for our economy, for California, and for our nation. Senate Bill 358 will address this wage inequality by strengthening protections against pay discrimination for women and stopping retaliation against workers who make inquiries about pay. If we can pass SB 358 in California, we can serve as a model for the nation and urge other states and the U.S. Congress to pass similar legislation. JOIN US and help drive the movement for equal pay forward by signing our petition today!

All public servants should avoid all verbal harassment of women during the normal work hours. The law is in place and it is not being implemented by any government employers. It is time to protect all women regarding this issue, now and in the future. This applies to all women of any age and race in the United States of America.

We begin this petition to honor the La Conner Town Counsel's respectful request to show support for renewing the lease of the lot which holds the town's baseball field.

Anti-choice politicians are hell-bent on making it impossible for women to get an abortion. • The U.S. House voted to eliminate insurance coverage for abortion for millions of women, and tax small businesses that offer abortion coverage in their health plan. • The Senate plans to vote to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, targeting women in desperate situations. Banning abortion and raising taxes on small business share one thing in common: they are about as far as Republican leaders can get from the priorities of the American people. We’re flooding Congress with messages to remind them what the majority of Americans really care about.

It is outrageous that on the same day Congressional Republicans abandoned their radical abortion ban proposal for being too extreme, Virginia Republicans are pursuing an even more dangerous version. Virginians need leaders who focus on policies to support families' economic security, not interfere in private decisions that should be between a woman, her family, her faith, and her doctor. Virginia voters have repeatedly rejected these sort of extreme attacks on women's health. This abortion ban was too radical for Washington and Virginia women can't stand for it here.

DHH will be holding a hearing to gather comments on January 29, 2015 in order to try and pass these restrictions. We need your signature in order to show that people oppose these additional restraints on the few remaining abortion clinics in the state of Louisiana, which are already struggling to stay open due to prior bills passed by the legislature.

The vast majority of Americans support legal abortion, but it's impossible for some women to access it. Most counties don't even have one abortion clinic. It's so bad, we scored half of all states with an "F" on reproductive rights. That's because state governments and Congress are overrun with anti-choice politicians who are obsessed with attacking women's reproductive health care. They've forced women to get permission slips, sit through lectures full of lies, and go out of state to get safe, legal abortion. If you think no one should be told what to do if they face an unplanned pregnancy, add your name now. Tell anti-choice politicians: You don't speak for me!

Of the 22 Republicans on the committee that handles most bills on abortion rights in the House, zero are women . A record number of women were elected last fall. It’s pathetic that Republican anti-choice leaders didn’t appoint any women in their party to the committee that votes on abortion – health care that only women need. If you think it's shameful that House leaders don't have even one Republican woman on this important committee that votes on abortion and women’s reproductive health, add your name.

Mitch McConnell was just sworn in as Senate majority leader, which means nothing is stopping him from following through on his threat to move a 20-week abortion ban. The scariest part is that the U.S. House of Representatives has already passed a 20-week ban, and they can easily do so again. Abortion is a personal decision that should be left up to women and their families – definitely not Mitch McConnell. We have to get out ahead of McConnell’s attack and show that the majority of Americans want him to focus on the economy and jobs, not taking away abortion access. Make sure McConnell hears from you. Tell Mitch McConnell to stop this attack on abortion.

Dear Sirs, Pregnant Mare Urine (PMU) is used to produce Conjugated Equine Estrogen (CEE) which is used for Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for women experiencing menopause. Pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer Inc., is the largest producer of HRT drugs, and the largest contributor to the PMU industry. Premarin®, Prempro® and Duavee® (formerly known as Aprela®) are just some of the products manufactured by Pfizer for HRT. The PMU industry as a whole is inherently cruel, and PMU Farms are notorious for the brutal treatment of pregnant mares and their foals. For 5 to 6 months out of the mares 11 month pregnancy, they are confined to stalls so small that they cannot turn around or take more than a step in any direction. Mares are impregnated and forced to wear rubber urine collection bags at all times or catheters which are held in place with movement restricting body straps which causes chafing and lesions. Their water intake is monitored and regulated to ensure they produce maximum estrogen-rich urine. They are deprived from normal equine behavior, such as grooming themselves and lying down comfortably. Once the foals are born and weaned, foals are torn away from the mothers and they are immediately impregnated again and forced to live the same cycle for approximately 12 years. Some of the female foals are raised to become PMU mares and forced to endure the same torture as their mothers, or they are sent to slaughter along with the males as they are considered nothing more than a byproduct of the PMU industry. At the height of CEE production in North America in 2003, there were over 400 PMU Farms in Canada and the US, which housed 35,000 to 40,000 PMU mares. Pfizer (Wyeth before the acquisition in 2009) started moving operations to China in 2004, and then moved almost all remaining operations in 2010 because of the public outrage over PMU Farms in North America. China has no animal welfare laws to protect these animals. They have been doomed to a life of incarceration and torture, unless we can work together to ban them. Today, there are only 20 to 30 Farms left in Canada, and none remain in the US. Pfizer decided to move to a culture that is more accepting of animal suffering, and out of the spotlight of public scrutiny here in North America. It is difficult to estimate how many PMU Farms are operational in China, as the information is not readily available. However, since Pfizer has indicated their plans for future growth in the Premarin® family of drugs, one can only logically deduce that there are even more now than ever before. The 2002 Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) – a major landmark study – concluded that the use of PMU drugs increases the risks of breast cancer, heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, blood clots and dementia. Many doctors in the United States and Canada stopped prescribing PMU drugs once the dangers were fully known. However, Pfizer (and Wyeth before it) already knew of these dangers and began moving production abroad where local regulations are more lax and there are significantly less FDA inspectors available to monitor production. Reportedly, this not only results in significantly more horrific conditions for the mares but also less oversight in the manufacturing of an already dangerous drug. The use of CEE in HRT drugs is controversial, as Big Pharma spends millions to hide the atrocities committed upon horses and the vast number sent to slaughter. But another critical fact is the health risk to women. Pfizer continues to market these drugs despite the fact that CEE-derived medications such as Premarin® and Prempro® are listed as "known human carcinogens” by the National Toxicology Program as well as the World Health Organization. Drugs containing CEEs are not well tolerated by the human body and pose serious cancer and cardiovascular risks among others. Pfizer continues to push their newest HRT drug Duavee® (previously Aprela®) without sufficient studies to validate the efficacy from a safety aspect, which contains the same health risks. These drugs contain bazedoxifene, which has yet to receive FDA approval due to increased risks of deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and retinal vein thrombosis. Duavee® is yet another dangerous drug that has been rushed to market to turn profits at the expense of patients just like its predecessors. Given the great achievements of the pharmaceutical industry over the last few decades, we wonder why an industry giant such as Pfizer, self-described as "the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company", is not using the most innovative and state-of-the-art methodology in developing safer and more effective drugs, but instead persists with decades-old technology that relies on the increasingly unpopular and detrimental use of animals. It is common knowledge that genetic engineering currently enables scientists to synthesize natural hormones found in the human body. Through recombinant DNA techniques, bacteria have been created that are capable of manufacturing human insulin, human interferon, human growth hormone, and human follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) for example – why not estrogens? E. Coli may lack the basic machinery required for steroid synthesis but the literature indicates that there are other host micro-organisms that function to bring about hydroxylation, a critical step in the synthesis of steroids with effective biological activity. Overall drugs containing CEEs are not well tolerated by the human body and pose serious cancer and cardiovascular risks among others. The manufacture of exact replicas of human estrogens using this technology would not only serve to reduce some of the uncertainties associated with the risks of HRT but also resolve issues related to negative press releases, class-action lawsuits and animal rights advocates concerned with drug safety and animal abuse. Consumers are more cynical than ever before, seeking safe and ethically produced goods....

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

In 2013, it was recorded that women get paid an average of seventy-eight cents to every man's dollar, just because of their genetics. That is a twenty-two percent gender wage gap. We hope to create a more fair world for our children in the future, and for other girls wishing to be viewed as equals.