Texas Sues For Access to Medical Records of Women Who Receive Abortions in Other States

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Disgraced Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the Biden Administration to block a rule that protects the medical privacy of women who seek abortions in states where the procedure is legal.

The rule is intended to safely allow women from red states access to reproductive healthcare in a different state in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision which overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Paxton released a statement claiming the Biden Administration rule is a "backdoor attempt" to interfere with the ability of states to conduct criminal investigations. All medical records are protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), but law enforcement agencies typically have the ability to subpoena medical records for criminal investigations.

Texas has already sought to subpoena medical records for patients who received gender affirming care in other states, but Seattle Children's Hospital, and a Georgia Telehealth clinic called QueerMed sued to prevent Texas accessing those records.

https://meidasnews.com/news/texas-sues-for-access-to-medical-records-of-women-who-receive-abortions-in-other-states

Paxton wants to look at your genitals.

[ColinC]

1. Holy Shit Texas! Can't you mind your own fucking business for once?!

[brer cat]

2. Those a-holes will keep pushing until they have every woman

in the country under their thumb. Well, they will find out soon that We.Will.Not.Go.Back!

[Biophilic]

3. This is absolute crap.

The state of Texas has no business attempting to get individuals medical records. Fascism at its finest.

[surfered]

4. Damn! Ken Paxton must think he needs a Trump pardon bad!

[republianmushroom]

5. Another myth, "America, land of the free." shot down.

[hlthe2b]

6. Paxton is an absolute monster and sadist. Time to treat him as one...

[wryter2000]

32. Why isn't he in prison?

That's where he belongs.

[Blue_Roses]

40. Exactly!

He is deranged and has lost his mind!

[Hekate]

7. No HIPAA for you, Missy

[DemonGoddess]

8. These are patient records

They don't have the right to access them.

[Irish_Dem]

9. This is stalker behavior.

And peeping Tom behavior.

Creepy. If he weren't a government official he would be in jail.

[Autumn]

10. Can the US Attorney General intervene in this? Medical privacy is a law isn't it?

[B.See]

11. The actions of Paxton in and

beyond Texas, with regard to voter intimidation, SUPPRESSION, and persecution (including his 2020 suit to overturn votes from 4 other states), with regard to the Latino vote in Texas, with regard to intimidation and threats to women seeking control over their own bodies and their doctors,

the actions of DeSantis in Florida,

and Trump's threats of political violence, the rounding up of immigrants, and the prosecution of political enemies

are ALL things FASCISTS do, straight out of a Nazi playbook. And we can expect FAR worse if these psychopaths are ever allowed to seize control.

[angrychair]

12. I'm no lawyer

But what crime are they claiming to be investigating? If Jill Smith goes to New Mexico and has an abortion, it's legal in NM. Even if it was a crime in NM, under what context would they be investigating as the crime was committed in NM, not Texas.
I'm just so confused how this is a thing.

[ShazzieB]

36. Good question

State governments have the right to make laws about what's legal in their own state. Trying to prosecute Texas residents for doing something in another state that is perfectly legal there seems like a hell of an overreach. I don't understand why they think they have the right to do that.

[struggle4progress]

13. Texas and Florida keep inventing new ways to use police in elections

[pansypoo53219]

14. FREEDOM appiies to males only.

[duncang]

15. He's already tried it in at least one case.

I think it was Washington state. He didn’t get his way then. He’s not going to give up. He’s already wasted so much Texas taxpayers money on his other attempts over the last election. All he wants is a chance at being the U.S. A.G. Under tfg.

[AllaN01Bear]

16. hey texas , have you heard of the hippa act? also many states have told you NO.

[chiffondior]

17. In a sane country

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and in a functioning democracy, Ken Paxton would be in prison, not pursuing creepy ass lawsuits.

[rubbersole]

18. 'Weird' is insufficient.

Repressed incels with power. Makes predator church officials seem quaint.

[barbtries]

19. how do these people have power?!

this is some sick shit.

[Ollie Garkie]

20. But...but...but

They're the party of limited government!

[Joinfortmill]

21. Women will not stand for this

[ashredux]

22. Well, talk about mine, your own damn business.... This is it. MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS.

[markodochartaigh]

23. Regulate boardrooms,

Not bedrooms!

[BeneteauBum]

24. Paxton is a dick

How he stays on as attorney general is beyond me. Along with Abbott and Cruz, he has managed to turn Texas a bastion of insufferable ignorance….as DeSantis has done here in Florida. This right wing crap has to end.
Peace ☮️

[rubbersole]

37. Florida is nazi state #1 !!!

We here in the ☀️ Sunshine State have a governor that wants to turn those pesky state parks into golf resorts! Abortion outlawed after 6 weeks isn't as on the level of going nationwide tracking down Texas women who behave like they have some say in what happens to them, but we're ahead in book banning and arguably voter suppression. And, and our governor looks like Alfred E. Newman.

[NoMoreRepugs]

25. Texas again pulling ahead of Florida for #1shithole state.

[GoodRaisin]

26. Paxton mind your own fucking business. nt

[markodochartaigh]

27. Here is a part of the law:

Section 218 stated that "a woman who kills her fetus or permits such a killing by another will be punished by a prison sentence and, in especially serious cases, by penitentiary. An attempt is punishable. Whoever else kills the fetus of a pregnant woman will be punished by a penitentiary sentence, in milder cases by prison. If the perpetrator through such deeds continuously impairs the vitality of the German nation, the death penalty is imposed. Whoever procures for the pregnant woman a means or objects for killing the fetus will be punished by prison sentence, and in especially serious cases, by penitentiary"



CORRECTION: THIS IS FROM THE NAZI EUGENICS LAWS SECTION 218. THIS IS NOT A TEXAS LAW. I'M SORRY, I GOT THE TWO MIXED UP.

[dgauss]

28. Paxton is an asshole. Some people are just assholes. Paxton is one of those people.

[Bluethroughu]

29. What a bunch of filthy perverted weirdos!

The GOP should be called
Gaggle of Perverts!

It's none of these weirdos' F-ing Business!

[ramapo]

30. What is wrong with people in Texas?

I honestly do not understand how they vote for these people. I especially don't understand why women are not in the streets with pitchforks about this.

Paxton might be an asshole but he is there and doing this with the permission of the voters of Texas.

[wryter2000]

31. Connecticut won't release them

A law my sister worked on.

I don't know how many people will go all the way to CT from TX.

[ShazzieB]

39. I think it would be great if more states made laws like that.

Like every state without a draconian abortion ban should make a law like that, just to send a message to Abbott and other thugs like him.

[Betty Boom]

35. Texas is a cesspool

With the exception of Austin, the whole state isn’t worth a damn

[Orrex]

38. Here's what some chucklehead posted two years ago on a related note

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216842213