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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

What a Grand Standing piss baby

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What good are rights if you cant use them to take away the rights of others

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

By George, I think she’s got it!

🎵The rights of the wife are taken by the Riiiiiight🎶

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What legitimate reason would a state have for accessing another state's medical records?

Is it none? I feel like it's none

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

"None" is the correct answer.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Is this the party for "smaller government" and all about "personal freedoms"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.