When patients entered family planning clinics, consumer data company They sold their exact positions For abortion control groups for targeted ads.
When patients chose recipes for treatment with testosterone alternatives, the law application regained their names and addresses Without order.
When the father was arrested by the immigration authorities and agents He claims that it has been reached His personal information from a medical clinic where he received diabetes treatment.
Progressive lawmakers in California have proposed a number of bills aimed at enhancing privacy protection for women, transgender people, and migrants in response to such interventions by anti -abortion groups, conservative states, and federal law enforcement agencies, as President Donald Trump announced to the nation.He will not wake up anymoreHe praises his executive strength for the decline in rights.
Democrats enjoy the presence of supernatural wounds in the state legislative council, but even if they pass the proposals, they may first need pressure on one of itself: the governor of the state, Gavin New News, who significantly reduced his harsh criticism of Trump.
Last month, the democratic ruler issued The threat of rare veto Against a draft law that would expand the law of state resort to reduce cooperation between government prisons and federal immigration agents. Newsom recently called on the participation of sexually transformed athletes in women’s sports “Very unfair” On the new podcast with the guest Charlie Kerk, the founder of the Turning Point Usa. Newsom went to tell Kirk that he had.A difficult time with“The way is that the right to transgender.
Billions of dollars are also on the California line. Newsom visited the White House last month seeking Unprecedented help For the victims of the Hashim fires in Los Angeles, the state relies on Washington for more than 60 % of its medical budget, which is exposed to major discounts under the budget of the Republican Party’s budget.
California leaders said, aggressive, motivated by recognition that there are many things that the state needs federal cooperation. Thad KoserProfessor of Political Science at the University of California San Diego.
A spokesman for the NEWSOMs refused to comment on suspended legislation. He has a busy record in supporting abortion, transgender and immigrant rights.
Since he took office, Trump granted the government-controlled government efficiency Ministry Elon Musk-which was created through Trump’s executive order-to reach Previously restricted dataIncluding medical information, and increasing fears that sensitive information can be exposed without appropriate guarantees.
The White House did not respond to suspension requests.
While most Americans are aware of the law of health insurance and accountability, known as HIPAA, it only provides narrow protection for patients in health care areas. There is no comprehensive federal law that protects data privacy.
Susan Bernstein, a privacy expert at the E -Privacy Information Center, said that health care information has increasingly became a monitoring and enforcement tool, and in the states that have banned some medical treatments or strict immigration laws, that the population at risk is more at greater.
Progressive Democrats are concerned that personal information and medical decisions of individuals can be used to monitor or criminalize patients, facilitate arrests in or near health care facilities, or to access health care services at risk.
They say and advocates of health privacy now that it is time to support protection for about 2 million immigrants living in California without permission, more than 20000 Adults transformed in the state, and Thousands of people Living in the state or outside the state – needs to take care of abortion in California every year. Some of these laws can become effective immediately if they occur.
“This relates to ensuring that people are able to reach critical health care in California and take out policy from our hospitals and health clinics,” said Senator Jesse Arigewin, who hopes the ruler will sign him A draft law to protect immigrants.
It is expected to discuss the bills in Sacramento in the coming months.
Since the Supreme Court canceled the constitutional right to abortion, abortion combat groups bought the site information from consumer data companies to target people looking to care for abortion with antigenant ads. And the authorities in countries that have a ban on abortion Mobile phone data is used To impose laws behind their borders.
A draft law submitted by a member of the State Association, Rebecca Power Kahan, AB 45It would make geology and collect the phone site by data brokers, illegal about healthcare facilities that provide personal services. will Also prevented Reproductive health information collected during the research from the disclosure in response to requests outside the country.
The conservative organizations said that the proposal will be done by restricting their ability to inform women of the abortion alternatives, including the services provided by crisis pregnancy centers.
“I think this may be a violation of the first amendment,” said Jonathan Keeler, head of the California Family Council, a state -level organization. “The draft law does not seem to prohibit or put any restrictions on a group such as family planning if they want to market or target to a local school or college.”
Until now this year, the legislators in 49 states have submitted more than 700 draft laws to combat sex Tracking transit legislationThe National Research Organization follows bills that affect transgender people. It represents the transgender adults Less than 1 % A resident of the United States.
Some countries with a ban or restrictions on gender stimulating are targeting health care data. In 2023, Republican ruler Ron Desantis A request from Florida universities to issue data on the number of individuals who have been diagnosed with sex defects or received treatment in campus clinics. In the same year, Andrew Billy, the Prosecutor of Missouri, presented Andrew Billy 54 requests To one hospital looking for information about gender care procedures.
Trump has released a series of executive orders to prohibit access to gender care for minors. Federal judges It has been temporarily banned Some parts of his orders.
For protection from other states that are in or prohibiting sexual care, Senator Scott Winner, California, wants to expand the current protection of minors to include adults.
His bill, SB 497The law enforcement will require an order to reach government databases to care for gender regulation and make them a misdemeanor to issue data to unauthorized parties. It is also prohibited from healthcare providers, employers and insurance companies from launching information about a person who seeks or gets the care of the gender physical and mental health of the gender of an agency or individual from another state.
“We want to make sure that we are as much as possible to protect people crossing from the hatred of the federal government, other states and private parties,” Winner said.
Keeler responded that the authorities in the states that have a ban on miscarriage or gender care should have access to medical information because they verify service providers who can harm patients or force them to measures against their will. A A lawsuit against Kaiser Permanti On a teenager, he set out after undergoing gender care. A Clear 2015 I found it uncommon for people who are under the care of gender assertion to make a decision to permanently rescue.
“The only way in which you can discover this level of widespread misconduct and bad difference is if these healthcare records are able to reach them,” Keeler said.
The California Family Council plans to oppose both projects.
Earlier this year, Trump canceled a long -term policy for not conducting migration arrests near hospitals, schools or churches. The decision fears service providers that immigration and customs enforcement agents will disrupt their work in health facilities and demand migrants to overcome medical care – for themselves or, a document of their concern, their children.
To expect this step, California’s Democratic Prosecutor, Rob Punta, instructed in December to advise health care providers about the best ways to respond if the ice comes to the doorstep of their door. But while private entities are encouraged to follow these policies, the facilities run by the state are only required to adopt them.
“Some healthcare providers have implemented them, but not everyone has,” said Arguín.
Arguín’s SB 81 All health care facilities, including hospitals and community clinics, will require state guidelines to reduce cooperation with immigration authorities. Service providers are also prohibited from granting access to private areas or places where the patient receives treatment or care actively, unless there is an order.
Another immigration bill, AB 421It would limit the exchange of local law enforcement information if the agents are planning to arrest a radius with one mile of the hospital or the medical office, a child care facility or day care, a religious institution, or a place for worship. California law enforcement has some discretionary authority to exchange information with immigration agents when the individual is convicted of a serious crime or crime.
Coser said that immigration is more complicated for politicians in California than health privacy. Although a survey survey conducted by the California General Policy Institute found that 7 in 10 California residents believe that immigrants are the benefit of the state, and Koser said that the legislators, especially those who won narrow margins in the disputed areas, still have to make difficult political choices.
The Republican Leader of the Senate Brian Jones, who is mostly a democratic area in San Diego, Suggest To change California’s haven policies to request law enforcement to exchange information with ICE when a person is convicted of a serious crime.
“When these violent criminals are released from the local nursery, they return directly to the societies from which they came to reunify those migrant societies themselves,” Jones said.
But Jones admitted the need for differences when it comes to healthy privacy.
Jones said: “See, the bottom line for me to reform this immigration in America is that it must be human and must have meaning,” Jones said. “Thus, if there are areas we need to protect people, this may be logical.”
This article was produced by KFF Health NewsWhich is published California HealthyinIndependent editorial service for California Health Care Corporation.