Standing with Women

Women deserve equality in every part of life — at work, at home, and in healthcare.

Women are the backbone of our workforce, but too many are forced out because of skyrocketing childcare costs, absence of childcare availability, unfair pay, and lack of good employment opportunities.

South Carolina is letting its women down by blocking reproductive freedom and personal agency. Women deserve to make their own healthcare decisions without interference from politicians and religious doctrine.

South Carolina is also letting its mothers down. Our state has an atrocious maternal mortality rate - 8th highest in the nation - with women of color facing twice the risk of white women. Maternal mental healthcare is severely lacking as well.

We can do so much better for the 2.8 million women in our state.

When women succeed, families succeed. When families succeed, our entire community is stronger.

Jenna will propose and champion policies that:

• Expand quality childcare and pre-K programs that families can afford. The prohibitive cost of childcare often forces mothers out of the workforce. That's not sustainable or fair.

• Protect and strengthen women's reproductive rights and access to healthcare. Politicians have no place in decisions made between a woman and her physician. Culture wars and abortion bans make pregnancy downright dangerous for the women of South Carolina, especially women of color who face substantially higher risks of pregnancy-related complications and death.

• Improve access to prenatal and postpartum care and decrease maternal and infant mortality rates.

• Strengthen maternal mental health awareness and availability of resources because motherhood doesn’t end at delivery. In South Carolina, mental health and substance use are major contributors to pregnancy-related deaths. Postpartum mental healthcare is lifesaving.