Issue Position: Supporting Women and Protecting Women and Children from Abuse

Issue Position

We must support women. Women make up half of humanity, yet there still exists a woeful lack of women in the upper reaches of politics and government.

Every two years Pennsylvania voters elect 203 candidates to the House of Representatives, yet in 2019 only 51 of those members are women.

We can and we must do better.

Bridget strongly believes in protecting the rights of victims -- and delivering justice to the perpetrators -- of sexual assault and abuse.

Sexual violence cannot be considered the cost of doing business for a woman in politics, business, medicine, or in any other walk of life.

Bridget also believes that children who were victims of abuse must have a path to seek legal claim against their abusers, free of limitations.

Bridget applauds the members of the Pennsylvania House who worked to pass Senate Bill 261 last year because she believes that children whose ordinary lives are suddenly upended by an act of sexual abuse deserve justice without limitations.

There is no statute of limitations placed upon some of the most heinous crimes. Crimes of sexual assault and abuse should accordingly receive no quarter from justice.

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