The gentle lady's time has expired but----

the rule says that medical professionals can have a full conversation, including about abortion but only--even if the patients asks, but only in the situation of medical necessity, rape, or incest.

radically alter and decimate the family-planning assistance program established by Title X with severe and irreparable public health consequences across the United States.

this committee will continue to hold it accountable.

I am deeply concerned that, at a time when we should be discussing how to dramatically increase Title X funding and bring reproductive healthcare to millions of women in need, we are instead being forced to focus our oversight authority on…

These new rules not only contradict professional ethics and practice guidelines, they perpetuate a system of injustice.

So this would be far, far more reaching than the Department would seem to indicate.

I think there has been a little confusion today and I think we need to be really clear what we are talking about.

The rule forbids health providers from giving complete information to patients on all of their pregnancy options.

Yet, this patient-centered care now faces an imminent threat.

It is an attempt to strip from my patients their basic human rights.

Everyone deserves access to the full range of contraceptive methods.

The gag rule would force providers to choose between offering limited information and care to their patients or to close their doors.

It is outside the purview of this...

If we want to prevent unwanted pregnancies, if want to prevent increases in abortion, or in unwanted children being born, then we should have robust family planning programs that are evidence-based.

You have elevated ideology over evidence in the public health and you have done so to the detriment of women and families.

The Trump administration's agenda takes neither evidence nor patients into account in its attempts to dismantle the Title X network.

What it says is we can give Title X money to organizations that will not--where the organization will not provide the patient with the full range of healthcare information that they need, even if the patient requests it.