The Biden administration wants to prevent investigators from seeking out-of-state private medical records. As stevebenen writes, it's worth understanding why Republican attorneys general have a problem with that.
After Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade, GOP officials at the state level got to work imposing sweeping restrictions on reproductive rights. There was, however, one rather obvious flaw in the partisan campaign: People are free to travel, see medical professionals in a different state, and then return home.
To be sure, this doesn’t apply to everyone. A great many residents of red states can’t afford to take such a trip, and others can’t get time off of work. But for at least some residents, the option exists: If medical procedures that were legal in your state have since been banned, you can go to more progressive states for care.
As a practical matter, Republicans can’t put up checkpoints, monitoring who’s traveling in and out of their states, asking people to explain their comings and goings, but for several GOP state attorneys general, there’s an alternative approach: They want the authority to seek private medical records from other states as a way of checking up on their constituents.
Depending on what part of the country you’re in, it’s possible you’ve seen related headlines locally. The Courier Journal in Kentucky, for example, yesterday that Republican state Attorney General Daniel Cameron also wants his state to be able to access private out-of-state medical records.
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