ADF to Biden: HIPAA should protect privacy—and children

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Julie Marie Blake regarding a formal comment ADF submitted Friday urging the Biden administration to withdraw its proposed rule change to federal health privacy laws that disregards the value of human life and ignores biological reality by hampering the enforcement of state pro-life laws and laws that protect children from dangerous and life-altering medical procedures:

“The Biden administration’s proposed rule would undermine state laws that protect expectant mothers and their unborn children from the harms of abortion and unlawfully insert a federal right to abortion into privacy regulations. Additionally, the proposed rule seeks to make it impossible for states to protect children from a variety of dangerous and sterilizing procedures including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, life-altering surgeries. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs resoundingly affirmed that states—not unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats—should set abortion policy and be free to protect unborn life. This is just the latest example of the Biden administration grossly overstepping its authority in an attempt to impose its radical agenda on everyday Americans. We urge the administration to swiftly withdraw this harmful proposed rule.”

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