Shaheen Accepts AmplifiHer Award from NH Women’s Foundation | U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire

Could 15, 2022

(Manchester, NH) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) launched the next assertion after attending the New Hampshire Girls’s Basis Gala final evening to just accept this 12 months’s AmpifiHer Award, which acknowledges distinctive work to put money into alternatives and equality for girls and ladies within the Granite State.

“I’m honored to just accept the AmplifiHer Award. Empowering girls has at all times been a prime precedence – whether or not that’s serving to small companies led by girls, combating sexual and home violence or preventing for fundamental rights and freedoms for girls around the globe,” mentioned Shaheen. “Girls are the linchpins of our communities. With every girl that ascends and turns into a pacesetter, she opens the door for extra girls to observe in her footsteps and stand on her shoulders. Making certain girls’s voices are heard and represented is especially vital throughout this watershed second through which Roe is beneath risk, turning again the clock on reproductive freedom for hundreds of thousands of girls. I’m becoming a member of the refrain of girls in New Hampshire and throughout the nation who’re dedicated to empowering girls and making certain our elementary rights and freedoms are preserved.”

For many years, Shaheen has been a fierce advocate for girls and ladies. As Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Associated Companies (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Shaheen has constantly secured record-high funding to assist Violence In opposition to Girls Act packages and serves as a fierce advocate for survivors of home and sexual violence. Shaheen – the one girl on the Senate Overseas Relations Committee – leads motion within the Senate to interrupt down limitations impacting entry to schooling, reproductive care and financial alternative. Senator Shaheen is a champion for pay fairness and is working within the Senate to move the Paycheck Equity Act, which might assist remove the gender wage hole and finish pay discrimination.

Shaheen can be an unrelenting advocate for girls’s reproductive rights. Final week, she and New Hampshire’s congressional delegation held a press convention with Deliberate Parenthood of Northern New England to debate what’s at stake for girls’s reproductive well being in New Hampshire if the Supreme Court docket overturns Roe v. Wade, and she spoke on the Senate floor to induce lawmakers to vote in favor of laws that might codify Roe. For years, Shaheen has fought to develop protection of girls’s preventative care, together with by means of her laws to scale back the price of contraception for servicewomen and dependents in army households. In March, she joined HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in Manchester for a gathering with New Hampshire household planning suppliers amid continued assaults from State and congressional Republicans, together with the abortion ban and expensive, pointless ultrasound mandate signed into regulation. She’s additionally led the delegation in pushing for Title X funding, and in January, she applauded a $500,000 Title X Dire Want Grant award by means of HHS for PPNNE.