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Hipaa V. Dobbs, Wendy A. Bach, Nicolas Terry
Hipaa V. Dobbs, Wendy A. Bach, Nicolas Terry
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A few days after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the Biden administration issued guidance seeking to reassure doctors and patients that the federal HIPAA Privacy Rule would allow women to feel confident that they could still seek reproductive healthcare without worrying that the information in their medical records would end up in the hands of police. As scholars focused respectively on the criminalization of poverty and reproductive conduct (Wendy Bach) and health policy and privacy (Nicolas Terry), we were less than reassured. We write this essay to emphasize how, rather than revealing the strength of …