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Diana DeGette: “Federally qualified health centers offering contraceptive…”

Featuring: Diana DeGette, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 1

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Diana DeGette Advocates for Planned Parenthood Funding Amid Medicaid Debate

Published | Video Starts at 02:30

My colleagues across the aisle say, well, don't worry, federally qualified health centers could, could just readily replace Planned Parenthood. But in fact, yesterday, May 13, 2025, the Guttmacher Institute issued a survey which shows that Federally qualified health centers offering contraceptive care would have to increase their capacity to provide these services by 56% or an additional 1 million contraceptive clients. Health department sites offering contraceptive care would have to increase their capacity to provide the services by 28%, or 344,000 contraceptive clients, and so on. (02:30–02:44)

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Asserts that federally qualified health centers would need to increase capacity by 56% to replace Planned Parenthood's contraceptive services.

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