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Chris Koster
stated on April 22, 2016 a tweet:

"Closing our state’s wage gap would make a $9 billion difference to Missouri women."

Mostly True

By Conner Smith • May 18, 2016

Vicki Saporta
stated on May 9, 2016 an episode of "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee":

"There are more than twice as many (crisis pregnancy centers) as there are legitimate abortion providers in the United States."

Half-True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 17, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 2, 2016 an interview on CNN's "New Day":

"Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesn’t do very well with women."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2016

Maggie Hassan
stated on April 12, 2016 a press release:

"Kelly Ayotte has voted four times against the federal Paycheck Fairness Act."

Mostly True

By Clay Wirestone • April 29, 2016

Michelle Obama
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview posted on Medium:

"Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • April 29, 2016

The Other 98%
stated on March 31, 2016 a Facebook image:

"Last year (the U.S. women’s soccer team) generated $20 million more than the men’s team and were paid almost four times less."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • April 6, 2016

LGBT Progress
stated on March 23, 2016 a tweet:

North Carolina spent "almost as much as it spends on government rape crisis programs in a year" to convene a special session for HB2.

Mostly False

By Will Doran • April 1, 2016

Bill McCoshen
stated on March 11, 2016 a talk show:

Says when Bernie Sanders was in college, Sanders said "something very similar" to what conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley had written as a college student in the 1990s -- that "women have a legitimate role in date rape."

Half-True

By Tom Kertscher • March 17, 2016

Emma Watson
stated on February 24, 2016 an interview with Gloria Steinem:

"More lives are lost from violence against women, sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, suicide, egregious maternal mortality, and other sex-linked causes than were lost during all of the wars and civil strife of the 20th century."

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • March 15, 2016

Stephanie Schriock
stated on February 1, 2016 as quoted by the Texas Tribune:

"Texas is home to millions of Latinas, but the state has never elected a Latina to Congress."

True

By Emma Hinchliffe • February 29, 2016

EMILY's List
stated on December 31, 2015 a fundraising email:

As part of legislative fights over abortion rights, "Mike Coffman co-sponsored a bill to redefine rape."

Mostly True

By Alan Gathright • February 3, 2016

Sheila Jackson Lee
stated on December 18, 2015 remarks inserted into the Congressional Record:

"Between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality rate for women in the U.S. has increased by 136%."

Mostly False

By Fauzeya Rahman • February 1, 2016

Jennifer Granholm
stated on January 24, 2016 an appearance on ABC's 'This Week':

When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics, "When they get to the question on, 'Would you vote for a socialist,' it is even less popular than voting for atheists."

True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016

Cynthia Meyer
stated on November 14, 2015 a tweet in response to Democratic presidential debate:

"More black babies are aborted in NYC than born."

True

By Lauren Caruba • November 25, 2015

Wendy Davis
stated on September 21, 2015 an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”:

After the Texas cutoff of aid to women’s health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs."

Mostly False

By Andy East • November 24, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.:

"Under Barack Obama and the big government economy, the median wage for women has dropped $733."

False

By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on October 28, 2015 the third Republican presidential debate:

"92 percent of the jobs lost during Barack Obama’s first term belonged to women."

False

By Jon Greenberg • October 29, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on October 14, 2015 the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"Every other major country" has family paid leave.

Mostly True

By Amy Sherman • October 14, 2015

Gwen Moore
stated on September 29, 2015 a speech:

"60 percent of all Americans do not want to see Planned Parenthood defunded."

True

By Tom Kertscher • October 14, 2015

Sean Duffy
stated on September 18, 2015 a speech:

"Millions of dollars are spent by Planned Parenthood to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives and the Senate."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • October 8, 2015

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