{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-andy-harris-and-pro-life-caucus-release-statement-american-college", "Congressman Andy Harris and Pro-Life Caucus Release Statement on the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists\u2019 decision to ban pro-life doctors from presenting at its annual medical conference", "2023-03-07", "2023", "2023-03", "Republican", "House", "MD", "Andy Harris", "H001052", "harris.house.gov", "harris", "https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON\u2014Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Chip Roy (R-TX), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) and Dr. Andy Harris (R-MD) today issued the following statement in response to reportsthat the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) banned an organization of pro-life doctors from presenting at its annual medical education conference taking place this week in National Harbor, MD:\n\n\u201cThe reported decision by ACOG\u2014an organization purporting to represent all obstetrician\u2013gynecologists\u2014to exclude qualified health care professionals of maternal and childcare from presenting at an annual conference because of their pro-life positions is hypocritical and outrageous.\n\nHealth care professionals should be welcomed to present at a conference that is designed to educate the next generation of OB-GYNs. The medical educators and doctors in training could have learned about treating both patients in a pregnancy\u2014mother and unborn child\u2014from the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNs if ACOG had not been fearful of the truth about abortion being told.\n\nACOG makes no secret of its extreme abortion agenda. Its detailed pro-abortion lobbying instructions to ACOG members, its \u2018language guide\u2019 touting euphemisms that hide the realities of abortion, and its stated intent to \u2018increase the availability of trained abortion providers\u2019 are just a few examples of its active and deliberate work to promote abortion on demand and spread misinformation about the pro-life movement.\n\nACOG\u2019s push to promote abortion is wildly out of step with basic medical facts and the views of most American health care professionals\u2014including 93 percentof OBGYNs in private practice who do not provide abortion.\n\nDeliberately killing one of the two patients in a pregnancy through elective abortion is not health care.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T23:30:02Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-andy-harris-and-pro-life-caucus-release-statement-american-college"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7077581249177456, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}