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Imagine your local health center shutting its doors — no warning, no alternative, just gone.

That’s the future that Republican members of Congress, including every single one from New York, voted for. With the stroke of a pen, they’ve moved to “defund” Planned Parenthood, threatening to close nearly 200 health centers nationwide and rob more than 1.1 million people of access to care, including thousands of New Yorkers.

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This wasn’t an abstract policy debate. It was a direct assault on the health and lives of people right here at home — in the Bronx, in Buffalo, in our cities and rural towns, in underserved communities across the state. These lawmakers voted to “defund” Planned Parenthood, knowing full well what that means: shuttered clinics and communities left without essential, life-saving care.

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