American women should have choices. Of course they should be able to choose to stay at home and raise their families, and hopefully those who have this desire also have the economic means to do so. But American women should also be able to choose, with their doctors, to terminate a pregnancy, legally under our Constitution. American women should be able to choose to take oral contraceptives and have them covered under their insurance. An American woman should be able to choose her life partner and marry him OR her, and receive all the rights and benefits of the federal government. American women should have choices in all areas of their lives.

Women and men should sign this petition, and we should make slogans and t-shirts declaring our right to choose. Instead of trying to take women back 50 years, Congress should be working tirelessly to pass all possible laws to help support a woman's right to choose. The Repubicans have the biggest double standards of all time. They fight tenaciously to , take away a woman's control over her own body, yet fight tenaciously to give total control to gun toters. Out of one side of their mouths they fight for their rights, and out of the other side, they take away someone elses.

ABC has a new "comedy" called "Don't Trust the B____ in Apt 23" about a nasty woman and, incidentally, her nice roommate. Just because you don't say the word doesn't make it any less degrading. You don't call The Sopranos "Italian Mafia A-holes" or reruns of The Cosby Show "Funny but smart N-words". It's not OK to use or suggest the B word either. Women have the right to be unpleasant without being the only group called insulting names because of it. How ironic that the head of ABC is now a woman. We call on ABC to change the title or cancel the show, and to stop with "the B word" already. We know funny. B____ is not remotely funny.

Women are not included in the US Constitution, that's why we needed a separate amendment to vote. Justice Antonin Scallia stated that women aren't covered by the "Equal Protection" clause of the 14th Amendment. Any rights given to women by Congress can be taken away by Congress. We need three more states to ratify the ERA and we can breath easier. It's now or never!

Prenatal care should be restored to all poor women in NE

State of Arizona and Governor Jan Brewer just signed into law that "personhood" begins when "the egg drops".

A petition for women to voice what matters most to them as mothers, professionals, sisters daughters and female leaders. Women represent the backbone of our society and yet we continue to be undervalued. This forum would provide a loud and clear voice that America's women matter and have something very important to say.

A Sacramento DA has ordered that a 17 year old girl who reported a sexual assault be held in juvenile detention to ensure she testifies in court against her assailant. She is a ward of the state and her bail was set at $50,000. Imprisoning this young woman will not stop rapists but will, instead, deter other victims from coming forward.

As men in Congress continue to hold meetings on women's health issues without any women present, I believe it is time women make a stand together. This petition proposes that if birth control is not to be covered by health insuance plans, coverage for Viagra and other potency drugs should be revoked.

This petition sends a message to members of the Senate and House of Representatives letting them know that it is not acceptable to pass legislation of any kind restricting a woman's right to choose. Mandatory waiting periods, parental consent, parental notification, transvaginal ultrasounds and forcing women to listen to the heartbeat of the fetus are unnecessary restrictions and encroachments upon a woman's right to make reproductive health decisions that men make every single day. The right to choose has already been legalized by Roe v. Wade through the trimester framework and reaffirmed by Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey in 1992. These attacks are unnecessary invasions of a woman's right to privacy and must be put to an end.

We currently have 35 states that have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment and all we need to make the E.R.A. the 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution is 38. The 15 states that have not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment are:Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia. It's time.

Republican legislatures and governors across the country are following the lead of Wisconsin's Republican Governor Walker to weaken equal pay for equal work requirements for women. Fifty years of progress for women in the workplace are now in danger of reversal.