Adrienne Adams: “We were the first ones to jump out there and said, oh, no…”

“I mean, we can take look at reproductive rights, we can take a look at protecting abortion rights. Especially when this president's Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. We were the first ones to jump out there and said, oh, no, not in New York. We have to have a fund to make sure that any woman that wants to come to New York for safe abortion care, reproductive care, has it right here in New York. So we fund that through the city council. Also black maternal health, something that nobody liked to talk about before I got here and started dealing with this thing, and other council members started dealing with this thing because it's a real thing.” (25:49–26:01)

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