Abortion Patients Have a Limited Privacy Shield: HIPAA Explained

The often misspelled and widely misunderstood HIPAA health privacy law will offer little protection to patients who defy anti-abortion laws and later seek treatment for complications post-Roe.

The US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will likely block abortion access in much of the country. About half of the states had laws teed up to ban abortions, and those laws are expected to increase the number of people traveling to other states for the procedure or self-inducing via medications. While surgical and medical abortions are highly safe, complications occasionally occur that could expose patients to legal ...