June 23, 2026
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In June 2025, a Texas judge struck down the 2024 Reproductive Health Privacy Rule, a federal regulation that strengthened medical privacy for reproductive health care. The decision is the latest in a series of threats to medical privacy by conservatives who want to weaponize health records against abortion patients, providers, and supporters.

Although the 2024 Rule is no longer in effect, it’s critical for reproductive justice and medical privacy advocates to understand what it did – and how it was attacked – in order to build more robust protections at the state level.

→ Read our brief on Purl v. United States Department of Health and Human Services