
#NoGagRule
We're expecting the administration's dangerous "gag rule" to drop any day now.
The harmful rule is designed to block people from care at Planned Parenthood health centers. We succeeded in pushing back the proposal, but the administration is moving forward with a final version.
Trump and Pence might not think you deserve care, but we do. Health care is a human right, and we won't let this stand. Planned Parenthood's doors stay open — no matter what.
Here's everything you need to know — including how you can fight back.
What’s the Gag Rule?
President Trump announced the gag rule last spring — and we've been fighting it ever since. The proposed rule is a dangerous and unconscionable attack on our health and rights.
The gag rule would dismantle Title X, the one program meant to ensure that people with low incomes can access birth control, STD testing, cancer screenings, and other essential reproductive health care.
The Title X program mostly serves people with low incomes, who couldn’t otherwise afford health care.
An overwhelming 73 percent of Americans oppose gag rule, and they made their voices heard. Medical providers, patients, activists, and others submitted an astounding 500,000 public comments demanding the administration stop the dangerous rule. Activists held rallies, marches, protests, phonebanks, and more. It was such an outpouring that we bogged down the administration's process and delayed the gag rule from taking effect.
We’re still expecting the final gag rule any day now, but each day without it means that millions of people across the country can access the reproductive health care they need.
1.
Add new restrictions designed to make it impossible
for patients to access care at Planned Parenthood health centers through the Title X program.
2.
“Gag” health care providers in Title X by prohibiting them
from telling their patients how and where they can access abortion safely and legally — even if that’s what the patient wants, and even if withholding that information threatens their health.
3.
Remove the Title X guarantee that patients get full and accurate information
about their health care from their doctor.

Who Supports the Gag Rule?
And their appointed officials, including:
Senior Policy Advisor Valerie Huber
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs Diane Foley

What are the Effects of the Gag Rule?
The gag rule makes it impossible for Planned Parenthood health centers to uphold their medical standards and provide complete, ethical, quality care through the Title X program. If the gag rule is put into effect, Planned Parenthood would have no choice but to act in the best interests of our patients and providers and refuse to participate in an unethical Title X program.

For more than 100 years, Planned Parenthood has been dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable health care.
We’ll do everything we can to stop this dangerous rule, keep Planned Parenthood health centers open, and make sure patients have the best care possible.