HIPAA is going to be severely tested in the post-Roe world

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14. That supposes their actually is criminal activity

But there are several situations where that might not be the case.

ie

-you are the GP and administered a pregnancy test without any knowledge of what happened after that.

-no actual abortion was performed but the patient lost the baby naturally

- no abortion was performed but a practice provided testing of fetus or health check on the mother that could be used as a motive for seeking an abortion.

-you are a mental health practitioner dealing with patients that may share their difficulties. Even if it does not extend to actual intent to abort. Just a mention of being pregnant.

The busy bodies are going to be after all kinds of information that wouldn't necessarily be directly covering criminal behavior.

It gets even worse when you consider the crazy laws that allow citizens to rat out each other for profit. It would not be out of the question for someone in the know to be tipping off someone else to seek the bounty.