TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 12, 2023

The Biden administration today proposed new privacy protections designed to prevent women's health information from being used to investigate or sue people who obtain or facilitate abortions. The proposal by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services amends the HIPAA privacy rule so that exceptions allowing the sharing of private health information do not apply to information related to reproductive health care for non-health care purposes. The rule is aimed at protecting women living in states where abortion is illegal who travel out of state for the procedure. It also would protect health care providers, insurers and other entities who perform or pay for abortions. Read more from Reuters.