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. Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading the charge nationally among 18 other attorneys general who signed a formal letter to the health department in opposition to the changes last June. Paxton argues that the new rule—as well as the original HIPAA privacy rules from 2000—limit the state’s authority to conduct investigations.
“The Biden Administration’s motive is clear: to subvert lawful state investigations on issues that the courts have said the states may investigate,” said Paxton in a statement. “The federal government is attempting to undermine Texas’s law enforcement capabilities, and I will not allow this to happen.”
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What a Grand Standing piss baby
But mah state's rights!
What good are rights if you cant use them to take away the rights of others
🎵The rights of the wife are taken by the Riiiiiight🎶
What legitimate reason would a state have for accessing another state's medical records?
Is it none? I feel like it's none
"None" is the correct answer.
Is this the party for "smaller government" and all about "personal freedoms"?
Maybe we should just make it work like we do with foreign nations, the color coding of states makes it functionally work that way anyhow. If your states lack diplomatic relations and and extradition style treaty then no info for you...
The downside of that would be that the techbros who think Snow Crash is a how-to manual will never stop jizzing themselves.
I keep waiting for them to start sending legbreakers to seize those record. They've had $10kus bounties in place on people who've had abortions since 2021, and now trans folks, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to push it a little bit farther.