The title of this hearing is on the Protecting Title X and Safe-Guarding Quality Family Planning Care.

So Title X serves a disproportionately high number of black and Latinx patients, compared to national rates.

Now, through its proposed gag rule, the Trump administration is directly undercutting Title X by forcing health centers to make the impossible choice between proper healthcare on the one hand and Federal funding on the other.

Please protect individuals in the Title X program and their access to high-quality care.

we are very concerned that the proposed changes, if implemented, would undermine patients' access to high-quality medical care and information, dangerously interfere with the physician-patient relationship, and conflict with physicians'…

What I find interesting is the wordsmithing that has been taking place here today. None of what you are trying to preempt has even occurred.

result in less contraceptive services, more unintended pregnancies, less early breast cancer detection, less screening for cervical cancer, less HIV screening, and less testing for sexually transmitted disease.

OK. So I would just point out that that regulation was more than 30 years ago and the legislation has been clarified that in its prohibition on Title X abortion funding, you can still have nondirective counseling of pregnant women.

the Trump administration has been intent on replacing providers' and patients' judgment with their own.

this regulation will do indelible harm to the health of Americans and to relations between patients and their physicians by forcing providers to omit critical information about health, healthcare, and resources available.

the intention of the rule is to ensure compliance of Title X statutory requirements, it is yet another attempt to take away women's basic rights.

the final rule would create a class of women who are barred from receiving care consistent with accepted and established professional medical standards.

According to the American Medical Association, the rule would, quote, 'radically alter and decimate the Family Planning Assistance Program established by Title X.'

Today, this subcommittee is holding the first congressional hearing in nearly 25 years on the Title X Family Planning Program.

The law that we have all been talking about says none of the funds appropriated under this Title shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.

This rule is the Administration's absurd effort to equate abortion referral as tantamount to the actual provision of abortion services.

Today, the Subcommittee is holding the first congressional hearing in nearly 25 years on the Title X family planning program.

policy decisions about public health must be firmly rooted in science and increased access to safe, effective, and timely care. The proposed rule would interfere with the patient-provider relationship, exacerbate disparities for low-income…