Mon Jul 24, 2023 – 11:56 am EDT
(Live Action News) – The Biden administration is preparing an expansion to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), as promised earlier this year, which would seemingly serve to protect abortion and infringe on laws passed in pro-life states.
Politico reported that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is preparing the final draft of the new rule, called the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy, under the Office of Civil Rights. After the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade, individual states were able to make their own laws regarding abortion. While some states do have laws in place that protect preborn children from abortion, abortionists — not women seeking abortions — are the ones facing potential prosecution.
It is believed that the new rule will protect both women and abortionists from those pro-life laws, claiming that access to abortion is a civil right. However, others are already preparing to push back, while still more warn that the rule change will open up the Biden administration to lawsuits.
“I would imagine, at the very least, that a challenge would come from state attorneys
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