Anita Aguirre, CEO of Santa Cruz Community Health, celebrates the Supreme Court’s decision to keep the abortion medication mifepristone legal in the U.S. It will, she writes, help the 750 to 1,000 people in Santa Cruz who seek abortions each year.
Anita Aguirre
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Roe v. Wade – decided 51 years ago, overturned 17 months ago: I am the new CEO at Santa Cruz Community Health and we have much work ahead
Anita Aguirre is the new CEO at Santa Cruz Community Health, a leading nonprofit provider of comprehensive health services that serves more than 13,000 patients a year at its three clinics. Aguirre will be in charge of a staff of 220. Here, she introduces herself to the community and speaks out against the recent setbacks women have faced in receiving health care since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade 17 months ago. In California and in Santa Cruz, she writes, we are lucky: “We are expanding, not restricting, access to reproductive health care.”