Readers Write: Re-elect Kaplan to protect women’s right to choose

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Readers Write: Re-elect Kaplan to protect women’s right to choose

I’m so proud to support Sen. Anna Kaplan’s campaign for re-election to the New York State Senate in District 7. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, I felt like I’d been plunged back into the Dark Ages. I’m old enough to remember when abortion wasn’t legal, and I’m furious at the elected leaders who support taking away women’s right to choose.

The Republican Party has been building an anti-choice campaign for the past four decades to control women’s bodies and lives and we can’t let these extremists win. Because they won’t stop at abortion — they’ll be coming after birth control next.

On multiple occasions, Sen. Kaplan’s Republican opponent, Jack Martins, was the deciding vote against the Reproductive Health Act that protected women’s choice here in New York. He was conspicuously absent at the Town of North Hempstead’s public hearing on repealing local abortion restrictions. Sen. Kaplan was there and spoke up loudly for women’s choice. Sen. Kaplan led the fight to pass the Reproductive Health Act. She wrote the new law that makes New York a safe haven for women living in anti-choice states. Time and again, Sen. Kaplan has proven her commitment to protecting women’s reproductive freedom in New York.

With so many challenges still facing us in the wake of the Supreme Court’s radical decisions, we need an experienced leader like Anna Kaplan fighting for us — not another extreme anti-choice Republican like Jack Martins.

Please join me in standing up for our rights by voting to re-elect our Sen. Anna Kaplan on Nov. 8.

Nina K. Gordon

Great Neck

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