ADF to Biden: HIPAA should protect privacy—and children
The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Julie Marie Blake regarding a formal comment ADF submitted Friday urging the Biden administration to withdraw its proposed rule change to federal health privacy laws that disregards the value of human life and ignores biological reality by hampering the enforcement of state pro-life laws and laws that protect children from dangerous and life-altering medical procedures:
“The Biden administration’s proposed rule would undermine state laws that protect expectant mothers and their unborn children from the harms of abortion and unlawfully insert a federal right to abortion into privacy regulations. Additionally, the proposed rule seeks to make it impossible for states to protect children from a variety of dangerous and sterilizing procedures including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, life-altering surgeries. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs resoundingly affirmed that states—not unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats—should set abortion policy and be free to protect unborn life. This is just the latest example of the Biden administration grossly overstepping its authority in an attempt to impose its radical agenda on everyday Americans. We urge the administration to swiftly withdraw this harmful proposed rule.”
Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, parental rights, and the sanctity of life.
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ABOUT Julie Marie Blake
Julie Marie Blake serves as senior counsel for regulatory litigation at Alliance Defending Freedom. Over the last decade, she has been on the front lines of high-profile, precedent-setting cases challenging federal overreach in courts across the country. Blake served as deputy solicitor general for the state of Missouri from 2017 to 2020 and as assistant solicitor general for the state of West Virginia from 2013 to 2017. In these roles, she argued 26 federal and state appeals, including before the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Before entering government service in 2013, Blake was a litigation associate at Baker Botts L.L.P., where she served as volunteer amicus counsel in several ADF cases, including Town of Greece v. Galloway. Following law school, she served as a law clerk for Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. She received her J.D. magna cum laude from Notre Dame Law School in 2009. She received her B.A. in Politics and Theology & Religious Studies phi beta kappa from the Catholic University of America in 2006. She is a 2007 Blackstone Fellow. Blake is admitted to practice in multiple states, the Supreme Court, and in many federal district and appellate courts.