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On the recordApril 29, 2016
In 2010, the National Association of Community Health Centers stated: Federally-Qualified Health Centers do not provide abortions to any of their patients, and we are not aware of any that have ever done so. Remember last year we said we wanted to give community health centers more money because they assured us that they didn't do abortions? However, on Tuesday, April 26, this week, we learned that some health center clinics in New York have been performing abortions. The National Association of Community Health Centers has egregiously violated our trust. The fact that abortions are performed at these federally funded community health center clinics is astonishing. We put our confidence in them, as providers of life-affirming women's health care, based on their commitment to not entangle such care with abortion. Abortion is not health care. Mr. Speaker, we need an investigation into Community Health Centers to determine how many of their clinics are providing for, referring, or performing abortions, and the National Association of Community Health Centers should expel this network of New York clinics from their association. ____________________
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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania

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