The 2024 privacy rule specifically protects patients in the reproductive health care context, allowing patients to travel to receive legal abortion care in other states under shield laws.

Abortion is one of 18 items on the special session agenda, and some advocates hope to revive a bill targeting medication ...

Legal challenges have failed, elections haven’t moved the needle and the fight for a narrow clarification shows how immovable these laws are.

At least 100 Texas children aged 17 and younger got abortions in other states during the first year after Texas banned the procedure, including six aged 11 and under, according to the latest state ...

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.

Columbus seeks to challenge lawsuit upending health privacy laws, abortion record access Samantha Hendrickson Columbus Dispatch 0:05 ...

LUBBOCK — Texas filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek ...

Texas is suing to try to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to get an abortion where it is legal.

Texas has sued the Biden administration to try to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of women from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek abortion where it is ...

Texas sues to stop a rule that shields the medical records of women who seek abortions elsewhere FILE – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas on June 22, 2017.

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