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Chuck Schumer: “Parents, patients, doctors have been punished like violent…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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LIVE: From the Senate Floor, 6.24.26

Published | Video Starts at 01:31

In Trump's post Roe America, Republicans are letting women die by restricting necessary care. Some women have to travel hundreds of miles, even thousands, to get the treatment they need and deserve and are entitled to. Parents, patients, doctors have been punished like violent criminals for life saving procedures that were legal just a few years ago. and had been for decades before that. The GOP is treating mepristone like it's poisonous and Planned Parenthood like it's an enemy of the state. It's despicable. (01:31–01:41)

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Asserts that individuals are being punished for life-saving procedures that were recently legal.

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