Biden rule protecting privacy for abortions likely unlawful, judge rules

[In It to Win It]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-rule-protecting-privacy-abortions-163606924.html

(Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas ruled that Democratic President Joe Biden's administration likely exceeded its authority by issuing a rule strengthening privacy protections for women seeking abortions and for patients who receive gender transition treatments.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo on Sunday agreed to block the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing the rule against a Texas doctor who through lawyers at a conservative Christian legal group challenged the regulation as unlawful.

The ruling by Kacsmaryk, who was appointed by Republican President-elect Donald Trump in his first term, issued the preliminary injunction a day before a Monday deadline for the doctor, Carmen Purl and her business to comply with the rule.

"Doctors and states should be able to protect patients from abuse," said Julie Marie Blake of Alliance Defending Freedom, a lawyer for Purl. "The court rightly ruled that this unlawful rule change would have weaponized laws about privacy that have nothing to do with abortion or gender identity."

HHS declined to comment.

[Blue_Tires]

1. Trump judges in Texas, the gift that keeps on giving 👎

I hope everyone realizes that Trumpers will have a stranglehold on the judiciary for the next two generations at least so any positive legislation passed by a future Dem administration will simply be negated by lawsuits and judge shopping...

But sadly Dem voters never stop to think about that when they decide to stay home or vote third party. 😒

[oldmanlynn]

6. Democrats should do the same. Shop dem judges

[Mister Ed]

2. I knew without looking it was Judge Kacsmaryk. n/t

[sakabatou]

3. The judge must long for the days of coat hangers and dead women

[sinkingfeeling]

4. TSF's favorite judge strikes again.

[Lunabell]

5. Bullshit!

HIPPA!!!!!!

[Vinca]

7. This is the "go to" judge the brown shirts prefer. If women and trans people have no privacy, they

should take selfies of their most private parts and email them to the judge. No, wait, bad idea. He'd probably rule they should be burned at the stake and Greg Abbott would show up to ceremoniously light the flame.