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https://www.8newsnow.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-texas-sues-to-stop-a-rule-that-shields-the-medical-records-of-women-who-seek-abortions-elsewhere/AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas has sued the Biden administration to try to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek abortion where it is legal.
The lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeks to overturn a regulation that was finalized in April. In the suit filed Wednesday in Lubbock, Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the federal government of attempting to undermine the states law enforcement capabilities. It appears to be the first legal challenge from a state with an abortion ban that took effect after the U.S. Supreme Courts 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the nationwide right to abortion.
The rule essentially prohibits state or local officials from gathering medical records related to reproductive health care for a civil, criminal or administrative investigation from providers or health insurers in a state where abortion remains legal. It is intended to protect women who live in states where abortion is illegal.
In a statement, HHS declined comment on the lawsuit but said the rule stands on its own.
The Biden-Harris Administration remains committed to protecting reproductive health privacy and ensuring that no womans medical records are used against her, her doctor, or her loved one simply because she got the lawful reproductive care she needed, the agency said.
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LizBeth
(10,565 posts)Irish_Dem
(55,557 posts)Would men put up with that treatment?
Brainfodder
(7,117 posts)no_hypocrisy
(48,041 posts)Next, if Dobbs supposedly returned the issue of legal abortion to the states, it would seem that the laws are encapsulated within those states which limited or outlawed abortion. By prohibiting women from seeking abortions in another state that DOES recognize abortion as a legal right, Texas is interfering not only with the women leaving to get abortions in other states, but interfering with those states and their choice to provide abortions to any and every woman seeking them.
Finally, while not imprisoning fleeing pregnant women, by getting their medical records from another state, these women cannot return to Texas due to the valid fear of prosecution and conviction.
MarineCombatEngineer
(13,642 posts)TX to fuck off and die because they have no right to another state's medical records, no matter if the patient was from TX, the moon, mars, etc.