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Zoe Lofgren: There is no Federal funding for abortion. And so if the effort to cut off funding from Planned Parenthood would succeed…

On the recordOctober 7, 2015
There is no Federal funding for abortion. And so if the effort to cut off funding from Planned Parenthood would succeed, we would cut off contraception, but we would not cut off abortion, which is an absurd result, I must say.
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Zoe Lofgren
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Lofgren argues cutting Planned Parenthood funding would harm contraception access without affecting abortion.

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