•      "Republicans have long been on a crusade to control and limit the rights of women. Our Committee has work to do, and people depend on us to do so. We should be focused on addressing the maternal health crisis in this country, which is harming black women most of all. This committee’s mission is to safeguard health care, not attack it. After all, abortion care is health care, and it is overwhelmingly safe. But when health care is difficult or even impossible to access, that’s when complications arise, and health outcomes worsen… Around the country, anti-abortion centers masquerading as health care providers are jeopardizing women’s health and endangering their lives. In Massachusetts, one of these centers failed to correctly diagnose a woman’s ectopic pregnancy because the staff wasn’t qualified to be handling medical care. This misdiagnosis gravely endangered her life and necessitated emergency surgery a month later. Furthermore, these centers aren’t held to the same privacy or care standards as health providers. This is not acceptable medical care, and it’s horrifying that some of these propaganda centers are getting federal funding legally designated for serving poor children. This bill wants to fund more dangerous propaganda and more undeserving facilities of this kind." Source: Rep. Richard Neal (Democrat, Massachusetts, District 1), ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee 

•      "Patient data privacy has become a significant concern in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, with advocates worried that, in states that have banned or severely restricted abortion, ‘the CPC industry is now functioning as surveillance infrastructure for the anti-abortion movement, amassing data that could be used in pregnancy- and abortion-related prosecutions post-Roe.’ Because… CPCs are not legitimate medical providers, they are not subject to federal health data privacy laws like HIPAA, which protects “sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge.” Heartbeat International – which is explicitly opposed to abortion rights – appears to be in a position to collect a significant amount of personal information from women about their pregnancies and potential plans for managing their care, but it is not under any legal obligation to maintain the confidentiality of this information, or keep it out of the hands of abortion bounty hunters." Source: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Democrat, Massachusetts) 

•      "We have watched with increasing concern in recent years as anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) have proliferated in our states, outnumbering abortion clinics by a three-to-one ratio, while misleading consumers and delaying access to critical, time-sensitive reproductive healthcare. As the legal officials charged with enforcing our jurisdictions’ consumer protection laws, we support Yelp’s efforts to ensure that consumers receive clear information about the limitations of the services and staff available at CPCs. CPCs do not provide full-scope reproductive healthcare and often use deceptive tactics to lure in patients seeking reproductive healthcare. These tactics can have dire health consequences and rob patients of their healthcare choices. Efforts such as Yelp’s warnings help educate consumers and ensure patients are informed of what services are and are not available at CPCs, which ultimately protects the public health." Source: Rob Bonta (California Attorney General) in a letter cosigned by 15 other Democratic Attorneys General