Strikingly, the rule claims to “protect the privacy and security of individuals’ protected health information” by banning “a regulated entity from using or disclosing an individual’s PHI for the purpose of conducting a criminal, civil, or administrative investigation into or imposing criminal, civil, or administrative liability”.
The OCR, which issued the final rule, lambasted the US Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade’s “right” to abortion by claiming that the SCOTUS decision raised “the likelihood that an individual’s PHI [personal health information] may be disclosed in ways that cause harm to the interests that HIPAA seeks to protect.”
In context, SCOTUS published its ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24 2022, upholding Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, declaring that the US Constitution did not guarantee a “right” to abortion, and thus overturning the dubious 1970s Roe v. Wade ruling that caused the widespread killing of millions of babies in the years that ensued.
Following SCOTUS’ 2022 ruling, the OCR published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on April 17, 2023, suggesting amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to back the “reproductive health care privacy”.
Since 2022, the woke Joe Biden government has been taking various measures to mitigate the impacts of post-Dobbs abortion bans in various parts of the US. For one, the woke administration rolled out an Executive Order alleging to safeguard access to “reproductive health care”.
Notably, the OCR voiced its worry that the confidentiality of reproductive health information may be undermined by investigators seeking to prosecute people who trespass anti-abortion laws in various individual states in the post Dobbs era.
Since 2022, the woke Joe Biden government has been taking various measures to mitigate the impacts of post-Dobbs abortion bans in various parts of the US. For one, the woke administration rolled out an Executive Order alleging to safeguard access to “reproductive health care”.
Not too long after, the HHS published exhortations to health care providers and related entities that the HIPAA rule protects information pertaining to abortion and other “reproductive health care”. This year, Vice President Kamala Harris proclaimed a “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour beginning in Wisconsin to underscore the Biden administration’s culture of death and resistance to pro-life legislation across the US.
For years, the Biden-Harris pro-abortion duo has been chugging along in their efforts to facilitate the killing of unborn children on the grounds of “privacy protection”.
Note that OCR euphemistically described abortion as “reproductive health care”, despite proof that such is not the case.
Once the leftist doublespeak under the Biden administration claiming “privacy rights” for abortionists and abortion-seekers is decoded, citizen privacy is probably one of the last things on Biden’s list of priorities, except when it fits his leftist administration’s agenda.
Nonetheless, once the leftist doublespeak under the Biden administration claiming “privacy rights” for abortionists and abortion-seekers is decoded, citizen privacy is probably one of the last things on Biden’s list of priorities, except when it fits his leftist administration’s agenda.
For example, the Department of Homeland Security's declared a “Disinformation Governance Board” in April 2022 to standardize agencies’ treatment of material it regarded as “disinformation”. After huge backlash, particularly from conservatives, the contentious board was eventually dissolved in August that same year.
Still undaunted in its attempts to widen its Orweillian surveillance powers, the leftist Biden administration recently backed a reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the latter which is an explicit breach of the 4th Amendment.
Touted as "the biggest expansion of domestic surveillance since the Patriot Act" with language that indicated that “an enormous range” of businesses could serve as NSA spies, FISA essentially permits the federal government to conduct espionage activities on Americans without a warrant.
Nevertheless, proponents of FISA’s reauthorization say the bill is key to protect “national security, to stop acts of terror, drug trafficking and violent extremism” at least according to Democrat Chuck Schumer, an ardent supporter of the debt-ridden American government’s massive foreign aid bills.
Under Section 702 of FISA, deep state agencies like the FBI can harness the data of foreign nationals, including foreigners’ communications with Americans, without a judicial warrant. According to FISA, deep state agencies like the FBI can target perceived “enemies” of the federal government, sparking conservative concerns about potential abuses of power.
“If the bill becomes law, any company or individual that provides ANY service whatsoever may be forced to assist in NSA surveillance, as long as they have access to equipment on which communications are transmitted or stored—such as routers, servers, cell towers, etc,” she added.
Elizabeth Goitein, who has been reporting extensively on the FISA bill, cautioned Americans via a thread on X (formerly Twitter) that went viral regarding its implications.
“Through a seemingly innocuous change to the definition of 'electronic communications surveillance provider,' an amendment offered by House intel committee (HPSCI) leaders and passed by the House vastly expands the universe of entities that can be compelled to assist the NSA (National Security Agency),” Goitein warned.
“If the bill becomes law, any company or individual that provides ANY service whatsoever may be forced to assist in NSA surveillance, as long as they have access to equipment on which communications are transmitted or stored—such as routers, servers, cell towers, etc,” she added.
“That sweeps in an enormous range of US businesses that provide wifi to their customers and therefore have access to equipment on which communications transit. Barber shops, laundromats, fitness centers, hardware stores, dentist’s offices... the list goes on and on," the reporter elaborated. “It also includes commercial landlords that rent out the office space where tens of millions of Americans go to work every day—offices of journalists, lawyers, nonprofits, financial advisors, health care providers, and more.”
On April 27, Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) recently decried his counterparts in Congress for attempting to pass hate speech laws to criminalize criticism of Israel.
“Some of my colleagues are introducing legislation to create federally sanctioned 'antisemitism monitors' at colleges,” Massie disclosed. “I'll vote No.”
“Policing speech, religion, and assembly is not the role of the federal government. In fact it's expressly prohibited by the US Constitution,” he continued.
“There's a bipartisan effort in Congress to equate criticism of the secular state of Israel to violence toward Jewish people in America,” Massie said in another tweet. “The latter is illegal and the former is protected speech, but if a false equivalency is established, it will be forbidden to criticize Israel.”
“There's a bipartisan effort in Congress to equate criticism of the secular state of Israel to violence toward Jewish people in America,” Massie said in another tweet. “The latter is illegal and the former is protected speech, but if a false equivalency is established, it will be forbidden to criticize Israel.”
On April 26, left-wing news outlet Axios reported that two congressmen funded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) aim “introduce legislation creating federally sanctioned 'antisemitism monitors' for select college campuses.”
Both congressmen threatened to withdraw federal funding for universities as part of a move for tougher federal monitoring of so-called campus “antisemitism”. Select schools would have to set aside funds to have a pro-Israel individual to “monitor” the campus for"antisemitism" and would risk forfeiting federal funding if they did not comply at any stage.
“The monitor would be appointed by the Secretary of Education, the terms and conditions of the monitorship would be set by the Secretary, and the expenses of the monitorship would be paid by the particular college or university that has been selected for monitorship,”Torres’ office divulged in a press release. “Failure to comply with the monitorship would result in the loss of federal funds.”
More alarmingly, data collected by the “monitor”could be used to sue the school for “anti-Jewish discrimination” or punish them for “civil rights violations.”
So much for American citizens’ freedoms and privacy. Arguably, the US elites’ fear-mongering tactics via “national security threats” play a vital role in their attempts to control the minds of ordinary Americans.
So much for American citizens’ freedoms and privacy. Arguably, the US elites’ fear-mongering tactics via “national security threats” play a vital role in their attempts to control the minds of ordinary Americans.
Just simply flip to any page of the deep state playbook and find that these fear-mongering methods are not too surprising. By leveraging global pseudo-pandemics to impose debilitating lockdowns and capitalizing on domestic terrorist attacks to curtail Second Amendment rights, leftist elites’ “divide and conquer” strategy is all too eerily familiar.
Again, if “national security” was so important on the federal government agenda, why is the southern border illegal immigration crisis spiraling out of control? Just don’t let Joe Biden or any leftist elite in his or her ivory tower tell you that the border crisis is “disinformation”.
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