Professor Natalie Ram publishes "Generating Genuine Data Protection"

"In April 2023, the State of Idaho enacted legislation making it a felony to help a minor obtain an abortion (or medication to induce abortion) by “recruiting, harboring, or transporting the pregnant minor within this state.” With more than a third of U.S. states having severely restricted or outright prohibited access to abortion within state borders, Idaho has now turned its attention to making it more difficult for at least some of its citizens to travel out of state to obtain abortion care. The legislation explicitly rejects as a defense that the provider of abortion services is in another state. Abortion care is not the only type of healthcare service that has raised interjurisdictional conflicts. As of April 2023, at least thirteen states have banned some or all gender affirming care for minors. In some states, government officials have attempted to define gender affirming care as child abuse, which would arguably support removing resident children from parental custody even if the contested care were sought beyond the state’s borders ..."

Professor Natalie Ram is a leading scholar on the intersection of genetic privacy and the law.