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Mark Kreidler

Unplanned Parenthood and Other Horrors Confront Medi-Cal Patients

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The framers of the latest lawsuit against the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle Planned Parenthood have succinctly identified their point of the attack.

“We need to just call it what it is: punishment for Planned Parenthood’s constitutionally protected advocacy for abortion,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said this week in announcing the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts by California and 22 other states, along with the District of Columbia. (Planned Parenthood itself is not a plaintiff in this suit.)

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