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Dede NY23rd
Dede NY23rd
✓ Dede is the 100% Pro-Choice candidate in the race for Congress this year. The state’s leading
reproductive rights organization, NARAL Pro-Choice New York, has endorsed Dede Scozzafava for Congress.
✓ Dede helped give more women access to preventative care – including mammograms, cervical cancer
screenings, osteoporosis screenings, and birth control – by voting for the Women’s Health and Wellness
Act in New the York State Assembly. (Assembly Bill A11723. Vote: 06/17/02)
✓ Dede ensured that hospitals offer emergency contraception to women who have been raped, so they
could avoid becoming pregnant by their attacker. (Assembly Bill A15A. Vote: 02/10/03)
✓ Dede has voted time and again against measures that would deny low-income women access to
abortion services under Medicaid. (Assembly Votes 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009)
✓ Dede supports the Healthy Teens Act, which would increase access to sex education programs that are
comprehensive, age appropriate and medically accurate for young people in New York. (Assembly Votes 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)