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On March 31, HHS withheld family planning funds from 16 entities, including nine Planned Parenthood affiliates.

“We know what happens when health care providers cannot use Title X funding: People across the country suffer, cancers go undetected, access to birth control is severely reduced, and the nation’s STI crisis worsens,” Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement.

Where one of Gomez’s own auxiliary bishops, the late David O’Connell, fought environmental racism on behalf of Black parishioners in South L.A., stood with striking hotel workers and prayed with parishioners outside Planned Parenthood clinics.

“Bernie has been a fighter since he first got into politics,” said Wynne-Rose, who works at Planned Parenthood.

That was clear during oral argument in Planned Parenthood of South Atlantic v.