“We know that even when abortion was available everywhere, poor people and minority women did not have access to this kind of care,” she said. “Medicare and Medicaid did not fund abortions. This whole situation has been exacerbated with this wholesale attack on a person’s reproductive decisions — anti-abortion people are doing everything they can right now, in every way, including trying to stop the use of certain drugs and contraception. It’s an all-out assault on bodily autonomy,” Hirono said.
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