Author: unitedfamilies

The Biden administration’s recent alteration of HIPAA regulations has generated controversy for its potential impact on pro-life state laws. The updated regulations risk placing doctors in a precarious situation, as compliance with warrants for medical records related to “reproductive health care” could lead to potential criminal liability. This move marks an overhaul of the long-standing principle that HIPAA regulations should not interfere with validly authorized search warrants for medical records.

The Scottish Parliament is considering “the world’s most extreme buffer zone law”. Gillian MacKay MSP’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill would impose 200-metre zones around hospitals and clinics (and potentially abortion pill-dispensing GP centres and pharmacies) in which pro-life activity, including silent vigils, is banned.

Idaho passed the Defense of Life Act in 2020 to protect the lives of women and their unborn children. The law officially became enforceable in June 2022, when the Supreme Court ruled Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the people and their elected representatives in the states have the power to pass pro-life laws. Idahoans stand to protect life, and our law is a reflection of their will. But the Biden administration didn’t care. A couple of months after Dobbs gave this decision-making power back to the states, the administration manipulated a federal law to say we still don’t have that power. The Justice Department sued Idaho, claiming that a federal law — the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) — supersedes our own law and in fact even forces emergency room doctors to perform abortions.