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Women's Equality Act - Jaffee
Women's Equality Act - Nolan
Women's Equality Act - Cahill
Women's Equality Act - Galef
Women's Equality Act - Rosa
Women's Equality Act - Schimel
Women's Equality Act - Glick
Women's Equality Act - Peoples-Stokes
Women's Equality Act - Steck
Women's Equality Act - Fahy
Women's Equality Act - Russell
Women's Equality Act - Titus
Women's Equality Act - Lavine
Women's Equality Act - Dinowitz
Women's Equality Act - Ramos
Women's Equality Act - Moya
Women's Equality Act - Bronson
Women's Equality Act - Simotas
Women's Equality Act - Lentol
Women's Equality Act - Robinson
Women's Equality Act - Abinati
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Press Conference announcing passage of the Women's Equality Act
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![Women's Equality Act - Jaffee](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_jaffee.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_jaffee.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Jaffee explains her vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"this legislation will break down the barriers
that perpetuate discrimination and inequality based on gender\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Nolan](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_nolan.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_nolan.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Nolan explains her vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"I cast my vote in the affirmative to be proud, to be part of the struggle, to achieve a better society for all men women and children in the state of New York\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Cahill](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_cahill.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_cahill.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Cahill explains his vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"my daughters deserve a world where they have control over their own body, where they make the determination when they want to take on the vast responsibilities of motherhood\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Galef](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_galef.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_galef.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Galef explains her vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"this is great day for New York women, New York families and New Yorkers as a whole\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Rosa](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_rosa.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_rosa.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Rosa explains her vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"women we are 50 percent of the population and guess what we are the mothers of the other 50 percent, women we know how to push and we know how to deliver\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Schimel](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_schimel.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_schimel.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Schimel explains her vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"this bill is important to restore health care choices for women and all New Yorkers\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Glick](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_glick.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_glick.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Glick explains her vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"women should have the right to control their body, if they don\'t have that right no other rights matter\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Peoples-Stokes](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_peoples.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_peoples.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Peoples-Stokes explains his vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"this bill in its ten points covers a broad range of things that will make women\'s lives much more important in this state\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Steck](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_steck.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_steck.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblyman Phil Steck explains his vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act stating, \"Another great step forward in this bill are protections for women who suffer from health conditions during their pregnancy.\" <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Fahy](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_fahy.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_fahy.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy rises in support of the Women\'s
Equality Act and states, \"I want to ensure women are able to keep their
health care decisions safe and legal. I say that as somebody who is Catholic,
who is a mom, and nothing has given me more pride than being a mom.
And yet I want to be sure that others have that choice.\" . <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Russell](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_russell.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_russell.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblywoman Addie Russell explains her vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act by stating, \"I support all 10 aspects of this bill, as someone
who has been pregnant recently and had difficult pregnancies both times.
I urge my colleagues to understand the fact that our abortion laws are
located in the penal code, forces our physicians to have to consult the
penal code when they\'re making decisions on behalf of women.\" <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Titus](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_titus.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_titus.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'While standing in support of the Women\'s Equality Act,
Assemblywoman Michele Titus states, \"This would make sure that women in
the State of New York have full and equal participation in our society.
My 11 year old daughter was just astonished and surprised that these
discrepancies still exist in our society today. As I sat with her though,
I thought of all the women who stood before me to make it possible for me
to stand before you right now.\" <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Lavine](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_lavine.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_lavine.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'In support of the Women\'s Equality Act, Assemblyman Charles
Lavine states, \"I do not want my daughter to live in the world that my
grandmother was forced to live in, or my mother. 90% of the rights of a man
still means inequality.\" <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Dinowitz](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_dinowitz.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_dinowitz.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'While explaining his vote for the Women\'s Equality Act,
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz states, \"It seems to that if you have 10 pieces
in a bill, and you support 9 of them, and you oppose one of them, then you
should support the bill. If you truly support the 9 pieces of the bill that
you say you support.\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Ramos](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_ramos.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_ramos.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'While explaining his vote for the Women\'s Equality Act,
Assemblyman Philip Ramos states, \"We here believe that women are entitled to
100% of the rights that they\'re due, as opposed to those who believe that
women should only get 90% of those rights. The concept of equality I don\'t
think is understood. There is no equality if you don\'t get 100% of the
rights due to you.\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Moya](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_moya.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_moya.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Moya explains his vote for the Women’s Equality Act saying that \"we are at the crossroads on the issues
of women\'s rights and there remains imbalances in the workplace, at home, in our educational system and in our health
care system that create an unequal playing field for women\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Bronson](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_bronson.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_bronson.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Bronson explains his vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"over 150 years ago the women\'s rights movement began here in New York State in Seneca Falls, 150 years later women are still struggling; women are still continuing the fight because inequity and inequality continues to exist\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Simotas](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_simotas.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_simotas.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Simotas explains her vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"today the question has been asked repeatedly why we need all ten points of this ominous bill, the answer is simple, to ensure equal protection under the law to all people\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Lentol](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_lentol.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_lentol.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblyman Joseph Lentol explains his vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act by stating, \"I may have a personal objection to abortion, but I
believe that women\'s equality takes preference over everything. Equality in
this life is what we need to strive for, and that\'s what this package intends
to do.\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Robinson](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_robinson.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_robinson.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Robinson explains her vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"many women find themselves in a situation where they are beholden to many men because they do not have the opportunity to educate themselves or to find the resources that they need to take care of them or their families\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)
![Women's Equality Act - Abinati](javascript:createPlayer('playerdiv1', '/lib/mediaplayer/player.swf', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_abinati.jpg', 'http://assembly.state.ny.us/nywomensequalityact/video/20130620_abinati.mp4', true, '410', '240', '/lib/mediaplayer/skins/beelden/beelden.zip', 'Assemblymember Abinanti explains his vote for the Women\'s
Equality Act saying that \"a person\'s status should not depend, a person\'s
worth should not depend, a person\'s opportunity should not depend on whether
they were born a man or a woman\". <a href=\"/leg/?bn=A.8070&term=2013\">A.8070</a>', 'vidcap', browser);)