Diana DeGette

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.

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…

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.

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

I would just point out that is not what the statute says.

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.

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'…

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 proposed rule would significantly and detrimentally alter the Title X Family Planning Program, which has provided vital sexual and reproductive health services to people across the country for more than 40 years.

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…

Indifference is far too common with the Trump administration.

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.

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

This Administration is comfortable putting its divisive ideology over the needs of people and families.

This committee will continue to hold it accountable.

The Trump administration's actions undermine that longstanding commitment, sabotaging not just the Title X program and its patients but access to high-quality family planning and related healthcare across this country.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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