Biden administration issues new rule to protect privacy of those seeking reproductive health care: ‘No one should have to live in fear’ | CNN

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : CNN  —  Patients have a right to privacy when it comes to their medical information, even when they travel to another state for an abortion, IVF, birth control or other types of reproductive health care, federal officials declared in a new rule.
51% : The final rule, called HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy, was announced Monday and prohibits the disclosure of a patient’s health information as it relates to reproductive health care, as well as strengthens privacy protections for that patient, their family and their doctors who are providing or facilitating the care.
48% : This means that the rule prevents medical records from being used against people for providing or receiving certain types of reproductive health care — even if a patient traveled to another state for that care, Melanie Fontes Rainer, director of the Office for Civil Rights, said in a news conference Monday.
47% : Under the new rule, “when a woman travels from one state where the care might be banned to another state to receive lawful reproductive health care, no matter what that healthcare is — whether it’s a pill or it’s a procedure or it’s just a medical examination — when that woman goes home, her medical records will be protected,” Rainer said.
39% : States where abortion is most limited report higher rates of maternal and infant mortality, as well as greater economic insecurity.

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