Hochul directs $35 million to abortion providers: 'Don't mess with the State of New York'

Gov. Hochul said Tuesday that she was sending $35 million into a new fund for abortion providers, stepping up efforts to guarantee abortion access as New York girds for the expected end of federal reproductive rights.

Describing the new fund as a “nation-leading response,” the governor promised the state will “do whatever it takes to protect and defend the rights of not just New York women, but women all across this nation.”

“New York will be there,” Hochul, who is isolating in Albany with a COVID diagnosis, said in a virtual news conference. “Don’t mess with the State of New York.”

The state’s first female governor said the fund would be established through the Health Department and would represent the largest allocation of its kind in the U.S.

Hochul’s office said the Health Department would direct $25 million in emergency funds to abortion providers, while another $10 million would be funneled through Division of Criminal Justice Services grants to bolster security at abortion clinics.

In 2019, almost 1-in-10 abortions in New York involved out-of-staters, according to a count by the federal government. The state could face a surge in health care refugees if the Supreme Court follows through on plans to overturn the national right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade.


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