welch and mr. boyle.i served as the new mexico secretary of health and one of my challenges was certainly to deal with teen pregnancy. but also make sure we had the right partnerships and viable access in the public health system where women and their families could get access to health care services of high quality and services they trust. i can tell you something you already know, that without planned parenthood we could not meet those access points and quite frankly even in the public health system. there are many women, particularly in rural air frontier areas of the state who, a, did not have access or would absolutely under no circumstances choose that access where i'd like to tell you that our record about prevention and preventing pregnancy was better in the public health system and that was in a world we didn't have the 2008 budget issues where our state now is not putting money into public health or expanding public health or working on women's health care. and without the affordable care act ou

welch and mr. boyle i served as the new mexico secretary of health and one of my challenges was certainly to deal with teen pregnancy. but to also make sure we had the right partnerships and viable access in the public health system where women and their families could get access to health care services that were of high quality services they trust. i can tell you something you know that without planned parenthood, we could not meet those access points and quite frankly, even in the public health system, there are many women, particularly in rural and frontier areas of the state, who a, did not have access or would absolutely under no circumstances choose that access where i'd like to tell you their record about prevention and preventing pregnancy was better in the public health system and that was in a world where we didn't have the 2008 budget issues where our state now is not putting money into public health or expanding public health or working on women's health care and without the affordable care a

. >> i recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. boyle. >> thank you, mr. chairman.i also want to thank ms. richards for the manner in which you've conducted yourself today. there was one answer you've given that surprised me, when ranking member cummings asked what the favorite part of your job here. i assumed you were going to say, sitting here for three hours, answering questions from members of congress. a couple of of these statistics have been cited before, a couple have not, but let me just briefly go through, as has been cited, there are exactly 2.7 million women and men that planned parenthood see every year, correct? >> correct. >> and of that, 1.5 million of those patients received services through title x, the nation's family planning program, right? >> i think that -- and i'm not -- let me make sure i answer you correctly. about 1.6 million of our patients are either coming to us through some federal program, either title x or the medicaid program. but a number of them are title x, yes, title x recipients. >> contraceptive services prevent 1.2 million un