ANN WAGNER’S VOTING RECORD AGAINST WOMEN’S HEALTH AND CIVIL LIBERTY
· AGAINST a bill requiring men and women to receive equal pay for equal work.
· AGAINST the "Violence Against Women Act".
· AGAINST stopping Federal contracts to companies that discriminate based on sex or gender identity.
· AGAINST the Equality Act of 2019 that will stop discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation.
· FOR a misnamed “Women's Public Health and Safety Act” allowing states to ban abortion providers from Medicaid programs.
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FACTS AND IMPACTS
EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK Women hold half of American jobs, excluding farm workers and self-employed. Yet women who work full time, year-round were paid only 82 cents for every dollar males earned in 2018. For many groups of women, the gaps are even larger. Equal pay for equal work increases the wages of working families who rely on the wages of all members of the family, and supports women’s access to healthcare and their retirement security.
Wagner voted against this bill that would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 so that women facing wage sex discrimination can legally fight back. The Equal Pay bill has been blocked by the Republican Senate.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT Rep Wagner voted against providing funds to several programs to stop violence and assist women victims of violence, to include:
Legal assistance to victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Training and services to end violence against women with disabilities, and end abuse of people 50 or older. $50 million yearly for rape prevention and education for young victims of violence.
Monies to carry out DNA analysis of samples from crime scenes and rape kits and increasing capacity of labs owned by the state or local government to carry out DNA analyses to reduce rape kit backlogs.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS This amendment to HR 5055 prohibits the use of funds for government contractors whose labor practices discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Wagner voted to allow Federal contractors to discriminate against women.
EQUALITY ACT OF 2019 Rep. Wagner voted against this bill extending protections given by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation in education, employment, and housing.
Prohibits discriminatory practices against women experiencing pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition.
Most Americans don’t know that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people lack federal protections. A nationwide and state-by-state poll in 2017 by the Public Religion Research Institute revealed that 70% of Americans, including a majority in every state, support laws to protect LGBT people against discrimination. This bill has been pigeonholed by Senate Republicans. While the nation has moved on, Ann Wagner and Republican legislators have not.
“WOMEN’S PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT” of 2015 authorized states like Missouri to ban abortion providers from Medicaid programs. As a direct result the Missouri legislature has withheld $1 million from Planned Parenthood for the past two fiscal years.
Federal law was changed to bar the use of Medicaid funds for abortions, but the 2019 and 2020 appropriations bills cut off Medicaid funding for all Planned Parenthood's services, not just abortions.
That impacts some 7,000 Missouri Medicaid patients who rely on Planned Parenthood for a broad range of health services, including birth control, cancer screenings and testing for sexually transmitted infections.
Planned Parenthood’s St. Louis clinic is Missouri’s sole remaining abortion provider, and the state is currently trying to strip it of its abortion license.
Ann Wagner has repeatedly voted to cut off all funding to Planned Parenthood hurting women’s healthcare in Missouri and her district.