The HIPAA decision opens the floodgates for law enforcement to use patient records to investigate any type of reproductive ...

A 2024 federal rule that shielded reproductive health information from disclosure to law enforcement when care was legally ...

Legal challenges have failed, elections haven’t moved the needle and the fight for a narrow clarification shows how immovable these laws are.

The rule prohibited health plans and providers from disclosing information regarding abortion and other reproductive health ...

In the first challenge to new reproductive health privacy rules issued this year by the Biden-Harris administration, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued HHS in federal court, claiming that ...

Texas suing to block rule shielding abortion-related records 00:26. LUBBOCK — Texas filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of ...

However, Texas right-wing officials have recently mounted a legal challenge to the federal policy in order to access the private medical records of patients who seek abortion care across state lines.

In Texas, following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022, abortion is illegal in nearly all situations, except when the life of the pregnant woman is at risk.

Texas is suing to try to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to get an abortion where it is legal.