[Med-privacy] abortion clinic records

[Peter Marshall]

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Protect Medical Privacy - Stop Intimidation of Women!
Petition: http://www.care2.com/go/z/21944

A woman's right to choose is in danger these days. In D.C.
and in the states, politicians are increasingly taking
control over women's private decisions, limiting birth
control options, favoring ideology over medical science,
and forcing schools to teach dangerous untruths under the
guise of "abstinence-only" programs.

And now, for the latest from Kansas: Kansas Attorney
General Phill Kline is demanding that two abortion clinics
turn over the complete medical records - including all
identifiable patient information - of close to 90 women
and girls who have had late-term abortions, supposedly for
criminal investigations into the legality of those abortions.

Sound familiar? Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft
tried the same approach nationally last year - several
federal judges struck down his subpoenas for women's
medical records, because they violated medical privacy
rights laws in those states.

These tactics are nothing short of intimidation. Please
sign this petition to Attorney General Kline to let him
know that this invasion of medical privacy is outrageous,
and that he must stop his intimidating pursuit of women's
private medical records. http://www.care2.com/go/z/21944

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Protect Medical Privacy - Stop Intimidation of Women!

Petition: http://www.care2.com/go/z/21944


A woman's right to choose is in danger these days. In D.C.

and in the states, politicians are increasingly taking 

control over women's private decisions, limiting birth 

control options, favoring ideology over medical science, 

and forcing schools to teach dangerous untruths under the 

guise of "abstinence-only" programs.


And now, for the latest from Kansas: Kansas Attorney 

General Phill Kline is demanding that two abortion clinics

turn over the complete medical records - including all 

identifiable patient information - of close to 90 women 

and girls who have had late-term abortions, supposedly for

criminal investigations into the legality of those abortions. 


Sound familiar? Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft

tried the same approach nationally last year - several 

federal judges struck down his subpoenas for women's 

medical records, because they violated medical privacy 

rights laws in those states. 


These tactics are nothing short of intimidation. Please 

sign this petition to Attorney General Kline to let him 

know that this invasion of medical privacy is outrageous, 

and that he must stop his intimidating pursuit of women's 

private medical records. http://www.care2.com/go/z/21944


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