A pro-life group is urging President Donald Trump to scrap a rule Joe Biden put in place to promote abortion using HIPPA.

The Biden administration issued regulations that illegally restrict how doctors can protect patients from the harms of abortion and “gender transition.” Before trump became president, a federal court granted a Texas doctor an injunction againstthe rules — but the rules are still in place.

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed suit on behalf of a Texas physician in October to challenge rule changes by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The changes to regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act added unprecedented restrictions on doctors’ ability to report abuse and states’ ability to protect children from abortion and harmful drugs and surgeries related to gender confusion. Without authority from the HIPAA statute, the new rule redefined “person” and “public health” to exclude unborn children, and it limited how doctors and law enforcement protect patients from abuse when it involves abortion.

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Now, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Julie Marie Blake says her group issued a  a public comment urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to withdraw another proposed rule, saying it exacerbates the problems caused by a 2024 Biden administration rule favoring “gender transitions” and abortions.

Blake told LifeNews: “Doctors and states should be able to protect patients from abuse. Late in the Biden administration, HHS amended the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations, weaponizing laws about privacy that have nothing to do with abortion or gender identity. The new proposed rule on HIPAA security, published just days before President Trump’s new appointees could review the rule, further embeds into HIPAA the illegal 2024 Biden rule that undermines state laws that protect mothers and unborn children from the harms of abortion, and vulnerable children from dangerous and sterilizing procedures like puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and life-altering surgeries.”

Blake added: “Moving forward with the new proposed rule would violate President Trump’s clear executive orders protecting women and children from the harms of gender ideology. We urge the Trump administration to swiftly withdraw this proposed rule, and to take all necessary steps to eliminate the 2024 Biden HIPAA abortion and gender-transition rule.”

The previous administration’s changes to rules under HIPAA added unprecedented restrictions on doctors’ ability to report abuse and on states’ ability to protect children from abortion and gender-transition drugs and surgeries. Without authority from the HIPAA statute, the new rule redefined “person” and “public health” to exclude unborn children and limited how doctors and law enforcement can protect patients from abuse when it involves abortion or gender-transition procedures.

ADF attorneys represent Texas family physician Carmen Purl, M.D., who won a preliminary injunction against the previous administration’s rule changes because she wants to protect her patients by reporting suspected abuse and to safeguard the health and safety of mothers and children.

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