{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://pappas.house.gov/media/press-releases/pappas-demands-oversight-of-momsgov", "Pappas Demands Oversight of Moms.gov", "2026-06-08", "2026", "2026-06", "Democrat", "House", "NH", "Chris Pappas", "P000614", "pappas.house.gov", "pappas", "https://pappas.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined Congresswomen Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Emilia Sykes (OH-13), Judy Chu (CA-28), Suzan DelBene (WA-01) and 82 of their colleagues in conducting oversight of the recently-launched Moms.gov.\n\nMoms.gov launched in May with the purported goal of offering guidance to expectant mothers, but the website instead features potentially harmful information about deceptive crisis pregnancy centers and puts sensitive health information at risk. The lawmakers demanded Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. provide answers about HHS\u2019s goals in developing, funding, reviewing, and operating Moms.gov.\n\n\u201cThis website purports to be a resource to support the health and well-being of women and families, yet it deceives vulnerable people by sending them to anti-abortion centers, or so-called \u2018crisis pregnancy centers,\u2019 that are not real medical providers,\u201d the Representatives wrote. \u201cAdditionally, these organizations often engage in questionable data collection practices of individuals\u2019 sensitive health information. We have long raised concerns about deceptive practices that jeopardize patient privacy and mislead people seeking reproductive health care, and we urge the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to guarantee that all federally supported public-facing maternal health resources provide medically accurate, evidence-based, and comprehensive information and protect Americans\u2019 private health information.\u201d\n\nThe Representatives noted that the \u201cFind Pregnancy Centers Near You\u201d feature on Moms.gov appears to direct users to Option Line, a 24/7 contact center managed by Heartbeat International, a nationwide anti-choice organization and network of over 1,000 crisis pregnancy centers. Heartbeat International has faced significant scrutiny regarding its collection, storage, and handling of sensitive reproductive health information through services including the Option Line.\n\n\u201cDeciding whether or when to bear a child is a deeply personal decision that should be made by the patient and trusted health care providers using medically-accurate and comprehensive information, not by opponents of reproductive freedom,\u201d the Representatives wrote. \u201cThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services already has resources with comprehensive information for women on reproductive health, including pregnancy, birth control methods, infertility, sexually-transmitted infections, and more. Moms.gov is duplicitous, a waste of government resources, and a thinly-veiled attempt to push a far right agenda onto people at a vulnerable time in their lives.\u201d\n\nThe letter is supported by the Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus, Reproductive Freedom for All, National Partnership for Women & Families, National Women\u2019s Law Center, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Power to Decide.", 1, "2026-06-27T21:44:12Z", "2026-06-27T22:11:26Z"]], "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://pappas.house.gov/media/press-releases/pappas-demands-oversight-of-momsgov"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9976299479603767, "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"}