State Assemblywoman. Linda Stender (D)

U.S. House of Representatives, New Jersey district 07

• Linda Stender, a current state assemblywoman and former mayor, is running in an open seat, with Representative Fergeuson retiring.
• Stender is running against state Senator and former State Senate Minority Leader Leonard Lance, who supports parental notification laws, and outlawing certain abortion procedures.
• Linda Stender is fully pro-choice.
• Stender has been a champion of women's reproductive rights in the State Assembly. She has sponsored bills requiring pharmacies to fill contraceptive prescriptions, and allowing pharmacists to prescribe emergency contraception.
• In the state Assembly, Stender sponsored a bill, A 992, in 2006 that "establishes pharmacy's duty to fill prescriptions for in-stock drugs or devices without delay, notwithstanding sincerely held moral, philosophical or religious beliefs of pharmacist[s]. That same year, she also sponsored A2137 which "allows pharmacists to prescribe emergency contraceptives subject to certain conditions." [www.njleg.state.nj.us]