The government of American President Joe Biden issued new regulation yesterday Monday, with the aim of strengthening the protection of the privacy of women undergoing abortion, who prohibits the disclosure of information related to reproductive health.

The new regulation, issued by the health department’s office for civil rights, strengthens existing provisions that date back to 1996. It aims to protect women who live in states where abortion is prohibited and who travel to other states to have it. legally in this operation.

The number of women forced to do so is increasing as, after the summer of 2022 and the US Supreme Court’s decision that overturned a previous one that protected the right to abortion, many states adopted restrictive laws or banned the procedure.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, about 92,100 women traveled to another state to get an abortion in the first half of 2023, more than double the number from the same period in 2020.

Some states – such as Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma and Idaho— have tried to reverse this trend by making it an offense to provide any assistance to women who want to make this journey. Appeals on the matter are pending in Alabama and Idaho.

The Biden administration’s new regulation also protects insurance companies, health care providers and other entities that perform or fund abortions.

The American president emphasized that no one should see their medical data “used against them, their doctor or a loved one because they sought or received legal treatment for their reproductive health.”

The regulation only applies to cases where the services are provided legally, meaning it will not apply in states where abortion is banned. However, it would apply to women who live in those states and traveled to another state to have an abortion.