Wed Sep 18, 2024 – 7:00 am EDTTue Sep 17, 2024 – 7:39 pm EDT
(Live Action) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently filed a lawsuit at the Federal District Court in Lubbock against a Biden administration rule that would hide information regarding abortion or other “reproductive health” from criminal investigations — a law which disingenuously purports to protect women, but instead could end up harming them.
The Biden administration’s proposed rule greatly limits the circumstances under which personal health information (PHI) can be shared when it comes to “reproductive health care,” or abortion. While the original 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) still allowed states access to some information – for example, where it relates to public health like diseases, child abuse, births, deaths, injury, etc. – the new rule would greatly inhibit or block their investigative ability to look at this information if it has anything to do with “reproductive health care.”
Attorney General Paxton said in a statement: “This new rule actively undermines Congress’s clear statutory meaning when HIPAA was passed, and it reflects the Biden Administration’s disrespect for the law. The federal government is attempting to undermine Texas’s law enforcement capabilities, and I
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