(18 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boston — 18 July 2025
1. Wide of Emily Nestler and Dominque Lee walking up to reporters
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Emily Nestler, Managing Senior Counsel, Planned Parenthood Federation of America:
"I’ll just say over a million patients a year rely on Planned Parenthood for Medicaid-covered health care. That’s over half of the patients that Planned Parenthood health care centers see, which is obviously a tremendous amount, and there’s absolutely no indication that those patients have anywhere else to go if they are unable to seek their comprehensive, necessary health care from Planned Parenthood centers, which is what the government is trying to stop them from doing. Which is why this lawsuit is so important and why it is so important for us to get this law stopped."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Lee, CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts:
"If this provision were to move forward, we’re talking about over a million patients who use Medicaid nationwide. For Massachusetts specifically, out of the 30,000 patients that we service every year, 40 percent of those rely on Medicaid. So, you know, it is pretty devastating if this provision goes into effect. They will likely lose a trusted provider and, you know, there will be significant harm and devastation both in just the healthcare system overall but wait times, delays in care."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Emily Nestler, Managing Senior Counsel, Planned Parenthood Federation of America:
"This is unprecedented, as we say in our lawsuit. They’ve been trying to do this for a very long time, over a decade. And they have not succeeded in actually passing it in Congress until now. But this is a culmination of a long-term plan. And we hope it still doesn’t succeed. We continue to fight every single day. We believe that it’s wrong, and we believe it’s illegal. And so it hasn’t succeeded yet. We’re currently, you know, under a court order that allows us to continue providing care. Care continues at Planned Parenthood. The TRO expires on Monday and the goal of this hearing and the motion that we were arguing in front of the court today is to get that relief extended for a longer period of time so that care for these patients can continue for the foreseeable future."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Emily Nestler, Managing Senior Counsel, Planned Parenthood Federation of America:
"I mean, I think the bottom line of their argument is, as they say in their briefing, ‘so what, ‘ right, that they they want to do this. They hate abortion. They’re willing to sacrifice people’s access to all manner of health care, in order to make a statement about abortion. And when we point to the impacts, they shrug their shoulders and say, ‘So what?’"
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Emily Nestler, Managing Senior Counsel, Planned Parenthood Federation of America:
"Yeah, a very central and important part of Planned Parenthood’s mission is to serve low-income patients and make sure that everybody has an opportunity to receive necessary health care no matter where they live and no matter who they are and no matter what their income level is and you know what we’ve seen from this law and the behavior of this administration is that they don’t care about that and they want to punish us at the expense of those people. It’s wrong and it’s unconstitutional and that’s why we’re here."
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7. Wide of courthouse
STORYLINE:
The arguments are part of a lawsuit challenging a provision in Donald Trump’s tax bill.
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