[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5432]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            WE NEED TO INVESTIGATE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, 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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