The Trump administration has released the language of a proposed rule on federal family planning funds, and abortion rights activists are raising alarm about what it says.

When health officials revealed last Friday that they would be filing a change to which clinics would be eligible for funding, they emphasized that it was not a ‘‘gag rule.’’ Instead, they say they were proposing to strip away a current mandate. It requires organizations that receive Title X funding to counsel women about abortion and provide them with referrals to abortion services. Under the new rules, a provider wouldn’t have to talk about abortion at all.

This was part of a plan that would require ‘‘a bright line of physical as well as financial separation’’ between Title X family planning programs and ones in which abortion is ‘‘supported or referred for as a method of family planning.’’

The Department of Health and Human Services declined to release the full proposed rule last week, but it is now posted on the HHS website. It’s consistent with the message that was provided by the administration on Friday but is more explicit in what can and cannot be said.

One page states: ‘‘A Title X project may not perform, promote, refer for, or support, abortion as a method of family planning, nor take any other affirmative action to assist a patient to secure such an abortion.’’

So is it or isn’t it a ‘‘gag rule’’?

HHS’ view is that there is a difference between counseling and referrals. Counseling — as long as it is not ‘‘directive’’ or expressing an opinion — is allowed. It stated that referrals for abortion are, ‘‘by definition, directive’’ and, therefore, not allowed under its new interpretation of a 2000 regulation that pregnancy counseling be nondirective.

Planned Parenthood and other groups that support abortion rights beg to differ. On Wednesday, Planned Parenthood launched a #NoGagRule campaign that includes a rally in front of the US Capitol.

‘‘This is one of the largest-scale and most dangerous attacks we’ve seen on women’s rights and reproductive health care in this country,’’ said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.