Elyse Hughes is a health center escort at Planned Parenthood of New York City’s Boro Hall health center, Co-Chair of Planned Parenthood of NYC Action Fund Activist Council’s Health Center Escort Group, and a PPNYC patient.
For every additional body standing outside, it is that much more difficult for our staff members and trained escorts to ensure a basic right to health care.
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