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Melissa Hughes: “We need to proactively protect women's rights, and it needs…”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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Who Will Fix Wisconsin Healthcare? Missy Hughes Makes Her Case

Published | Video Starts at 05:15

You know, right now we're on this kind of knife's edge where this 18 whatever rule law is still on the books, but only has been knocked down by the Supreme Court. We need to proactively protect women's rights, and it needs to be extended to contraception and to ivf. And, you know, at every moment, a woman has to be in charge of her body and able to make those decisions with her doctor. You yourself live in a rural community. (05:15–05:23)

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