I want to take a moment to recognize the efforts of the Alaska Women's Political Caucus "to increase women’s participation in the political process, to increase the number of progressive pro-choice women in elected and appointed positions, to win equality for women, and to support candidates who support our goals."

AWPC believes:
1. "No rights or privileges of any person shall be denied on the basis of gender. "
2. Women have rights "to reproductive freedom, meaning that the woman, not the government, holds the right to choose whether or not to continue a pregnancy, and support public funding for adequate access to birth control information and abortion-related services for low­-income women."
3. In supporting "childcare programs through local, state, and federal funding" and increasing "the availability of quality childcare services."

In pursuit of those goals, the AWPC states that it is "dedicated to the eradication of sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, ageism, violence, poverty, discrimination against the disabled and discrimination on the basis of religion, and to ensuring reproductive freedom and freedom of sexual orientation. "

Bravo!