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These are the Bills Affecting Women in Florida's 2018 Legislative Session

By Rachel Iacovone,

Published November 14, 2017 at 11:55 AM EST

A woman holds up a sign that says "Our rights are not up for grabs. Neither are we!" at the Women's March on Washington on Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

Women’s issues have dominated headlines in the several months following the national Women’s March on Washington, and in Florida, there are numerous proposed bills dealing with women, their treatment, equality and protection.

The National Organization for Women, or NOW, is a feminist nonprofit organization with 550 chapters across the U.S. The president of Florida NOW is Terry Sanders.

Sanders as well as Florida NOW's legislative director, Judi Marraccini, join Gulf Coast Live to talk about what women across the state can expect heading into the 2018 legislative session.

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Rachel Iacovone

Rachel Iacovone is a reporter and associate producer of Gulf Coast Live for WGCU News. Rachel came to WGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.Rachel was first contacted by WGCU when she was managing editor of FGCU's student-run media group, Eagle News. She helped take Eagle News from a weekly newspaper to a daily online publication with TV and radio branches within two years, winning the 2016 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Use of Multimedia in a cross-platform series she led for National Coming Out Day. She also won the Mark of Excellence Award for Feature Writing for her five-month coverage of an FGCU student's transition from male to female.As a WGCU reporter, she produced the first radio story in WGCU's Curious Gulf Coast project, which answered the question: Does SWFL Have More Cases of Pediatric Cancer?Rachel graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

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