The AMA is urging Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar II to withdraw a proposed rule that that would significantly revise the regulations governing the federal Title X family planning program.

“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 patient-physician relationship and conflict with physicians’ ethical obligations, exclude qualified providers and jeopardize public health,”  AMA CEO and Executive Vice President James L. Madara, MD, wrote in a letter to Azar.

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