AMA response to administration's attack on family planning services

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Statement attributable to:
David O. Barbe, M.D.
President, American Medical Association

“The AMA objects strongly to the administration’s plan to withhold federal family planning funding from Planned Parenthood and other entities. We are particularly alarmed about government interference with the patient-physician relationship in the exam room.

 

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