Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding women’s health and economic security.

make improving women’s health a priority in the 113th Congress;

ensure that all women have access to the best available, scientifically based health care;

ensure that women have access to safe childbearing, with resources available to reduce maternal and infant morbidity and mortality;

ensure that women have the autonomy to decide whether to have children, the number and spacing of their children, and to have medically accurate information, education, and access to health services to make these decisions;

ensure that women have access to affordable insurance coverage for all of their pregnancy-related health care needs, including contraception and abortion, as well as for their general health care needs including coverage through Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act;

work to end gender discrimination and improve the health of women by implementing the Affordable Care Act;

ensure that women have autonomous decisionmaking, informed consent, privacy, and confidentiality regarding their health care;

work to end health disparities for women, including with regard to ethnicity, race, gender, and sexual orientation;

ensure that women are able to participate equally in ethically conducted clinical research;

work to end gender-based violence, which disproportionately affects women, including transgender women;

ensure parents have and can use earned sick days to care for one’s self or one’s family, have paid leave to prepare for and recover from pregnancy and childbirth and to care for their children or a loved one, and may receive a social security credit if they are forced to leave the workforce to care for a child or a loved one;

eliminate discrimination and promote women’s health and economic security by ensuring reasonable workplace accommodations for workers whose ability to perform the functions of a job are limited by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition;

ensure that women receive equal pay for equal work; and

ensure that older women have the resources needed to guarantee their financial and economic security as they age.