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[ Friday, June 20, 2025 ]

Finally!! Biden Administration's HIPAA Abortion Stupidity Negated: As I previously wrote about at length, the asinine Biden Administration HIPAA abortion regulation has been overturned by a Federal judge in Texas. The judge said the regulations were clearly intended to provide special protections for "politically favored procedures," which is a power HIPAA does not grant to HHS.

I decided to reference it as "the Biden Administration's" doing, rather than Biden's, because he was obviously not mentally capable of actually making decisions like this. This is really Xavier Becerra's brainless baby; being a metaphorical and not a real baby, I'm so happy it has been aborted, even late-term.
The regulation was stupid, overly burdensome, and entirely unnecessary. It added exactly ZERO new protections above what already existed in HIPAA, but merely obligated HIPAA-covered entities to engage in wasteful recordkeeping.
The regulation was awfully drafted, and in an effort to paper over its obvious purposes of simply punishing states that don't agree with the pro-abortion stance, it instead placed barriers against protecting victims of sexual abuse, by hindering reporting to law enforcement.
Additionally, it required HIPAA-covered entities to change their notices or privacy practices to make it appear that the covered entity was taking a pro-abortion stance.

It is a shame on the Trump Administration that they did not pull the regulation themselves, and instead let the judicial branch to the heavy lifting.

Jeff [7:25 AM]

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