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Kirsten Gillibrand: “The Hyde amendment matters so much.”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Washington Post Live Interview with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on 2020 Presidential Campaign and Key Issues

Published | Video Starts at 02:55

It's an issue of economics, not having access to the health care that they desperately need, meaning that disproportionate harm will fall to women who don't have enough money to travel out of state to low income women. That's why The Hyde amendment matters so much. And issues of just basic human rights that you're telling women they can't have agency over in their own bodies to make these very hard decisions. (02:55–02:58)

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Asserts the importance of the Hyde amendment in the context of reproductive rights.

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