In the Biden administration’s latest salvo against the Dobbs decision, on Monday HHS finalized HIPAA regulations that directly attack pro-life state laws and place innocent doctors in the crossfire.
I was the nation’s HIPAA regulator under President Trump, so I can speak with some authority on this matter. HIPAA regulations are painstakingly balanced protecting patient privacy across a multitude of weighty interests including research, public health, treatment efficacy, cost containment, and notably, law enforcement. For decades, HIPAA rightly got out of the way whenever courts validly authorized search warrants of medical records. But new Biden regulations have flipped this long-standing arrangement and doctors now risk incarceration if they comply with a valid warrant that seeks records related to “reproductive health care,” defined to include abortion,
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