{"id":4814,"date":"2024-04-23T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T09:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2024-04-23T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T09:27:10","slug":"abortion-data-wars-states-and-cities-debate-how-much-information-to-collect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=4814","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Data Wars: States and Cities Debate How Much Information to Collect"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some states with Republican-controlled legislatures want more data, while some controlled by Democrats want less, fearing it could be used to target patients or providers.<\/p>\n

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In the fierce debate over abortion in the United States, the subject of data collection might seem wonky and tangential. But the information that state and city governments collect about abortion patients is becoming another flashpoint in the country\u2019s bitter divide over the issue.<\/p>\n

Some states with Republican-controlled legislatures have moved to require more information about each abortion, while some states where Democrats dominate are reducing the information they collect, fearing that it may be used to identify patients or to prosecute abortion providers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a country that\u2019s very divided, where abortion is legal in some places and illegal in others, giving where you live or where you\u2019re born seems much more risky than in a country where abortion before viability is legal,\u201d said Rachel Rebouch\u00e9, the dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law and an abortion rights legal scholar. \u201cInterstate conflict is only intensifying, and data is the first shot across the bow for how to actualize that conflict,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Abortion rights supporters say they are especially concerned about the potential for anti-abortion states to use data to track patients who travel out-of-state for abortions or receive pills shipped from other states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Such concerns are also spurring action at the federal level. On Monday, the Biden administration announced a rule<\/a> to protect information about abortion patients and providers and prevent it from being used to investigate or prosecute them. The rule is intended to keep law enforcement agencies in states that restrict abortion from obtaining information about patients who travel to states where abortion is legal and about abortion providers who treat them. It is also intended to protect health care providers in the patients\u2019 home states who have given them unrelated medical care.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one should have their medical records used against them, their doctor or their loved one just because they sought or received lawful reproductive health care,\u201d Jennifer Klein, the director of the White House Gender Policy Council, said in announcing the rule.<\/p>\n

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Some states with Republican-controlled legislatures want more data, while some controlled by Democrats want less, fearing it could be used to target patients or providers.In the fierce debate over abortion in the United States, the subject of data collection might seem wonky and tangential. But the information that state and city governments collect about abortion patients is becoming another flashpoint in the country\u2019s bitter divide over the issue.Some states with Republican-controlled legislatures have moved to require more information about each abortion, while some states where Democrats dominate are reducing the information they collect, fearing that it may be used to identify patients or to prosecute abortion providers.\u201cIn a country that\u2019s very divided, where abortion is legal in some places and illegal in others, giving where you live or where you\u2019re born seems much more risky than in a country where abortion before viability is legal,\u201d said Rachel Rebouch\u00e9, the dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law and an abortion rights legal scholar. \u201cInterstate conflict is only intensifying, and data is the first shot across the bow for how to actualize that conflict,\u201d she added.Abortion rights supporters say they are especially concerned about the potential for anti-abortion states to use data to track patients who travel out-of-state for abortions or receive pills shipped from other states.Such concerns are also spurring action at the federal level. On Monday, the Biden administration announced a rule to protect information about abortion patients and providers and prevent it from being used to investigate or prosecute them. The rule is intended to keep law enforcement agencies in states that restrict abortion from obtaining information about patients who travel to states where abortion is legal and about abortion providers who treat them. It is also intended to protect health care providers in the patients\u2019 home states who have given them unrelated medical care.\u201cNo one should have their medical records used against them, their doctor or their loved one just because they sought or received lawful reproductive health care,\u201d Jennifer Klein, the director of the White House Gender Policy Council, said in announcing the rule.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4816,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4817,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions\/4817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}