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The television personality and psychologist — whose real name is Phil McGraw — plans to meet Thursday with lawmakers to discuss the link between the nation's growing drug addiction problem and children in foster care.
Child advocates say the number of children entering foster care because their parents have drug problems is growing faster than any other reason they are removed from their families.
According to his clinic's website, Carhart was an associate of Dr. George Tiller, a late-term abortion provider in Kansas who was fatally shot by an abortion foe in 2009.
Republicans created the panel last year in reaction to covertly recorded videos showing Planned Parenthood officials describing how they sometimes furnish fetal tissue to researchers.
Diana DeGette of Colorado and Louise Slaughter of New York, two leading abortion-rights proponents, called the subpoenas "demagoguery" that they said would "demonize people performing constitutionally protected health procedures and exposes all involved to threats and potential violence."