Fentanyl can be used on its own or can be mixed with other drugs.

Today, we are here once again to discuss the opioid crisis, an epidemic this country has been battling for years.

Fentanyl is extremely dangerous. It is 50 times more powerful than heroin, 100 times more powerful than morphine.

It can be bought anonymously on the Dark Web, and because it is so potent, small but deadly quantities of the drug can be shipped in packages.

Today, we are once again here to discuss the opioid crisis, an epidemic that this country has been battling for years.

I just want to say this is the problem we are having with your agency every day, is a lack of cooperation, a lack of documents, a lack of disclosure, and this will not be allowed to continue.

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

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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…

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I think we should all work together on both sides of the aisle to pass robust birth control legislation.

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'…

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

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.

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