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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Texas’ abortion laws are extremely unpopular, with as many as 80% of voters saying they’d like to see additional exceptions, and Democrats have tried to capitalize on that dissonance.

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.

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.

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.

At least 100 Texas children aged 17 and younger got abortions in other states during the first year after Texas banned the procedure, including six aged 11 and under, according to the latest state ...