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Re: Clinics Ask State Supreme Court To Block Kansas AG's Investigation Involving Medical Records of Women Who Had Abortions From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@yahoo.com) Mon Feb 28 20:34:11 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: discontinuation of tamoxifen" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: Clinics Ask State Supreme Court To Block Kansas AG's Investigation Involving Medical Records of Women Who Had Abortions" I have to agree with this editorial writer ... this does not have anything to do with looking for perpetrators of rape etc ... although that excuse "looks good" in print. It is trying to get confidential recods that are protected by law ... I would guess that the hope is that all the publicity surrounding this will make people shy away from the decision / stay away from those clinics. Personally, I have never seen a "late term abortion" for anything other than congenital / genetic defects incompatible with life ... and those were induction of labor to evacuate the uterus - never the horrendous things that the anti abortion folks put in print ... have any of you? Joanne At Mon, 28 Feb 2005, art fougner, md wrote: > >In today's Ny Times - this issue is getting national attention - >reprinted since registration required. > >What's Secretly Wrong With Kansas > >In a shocking abuse of office, the attorney general of Kansas is >conducting a stealth campaign to violate the privacy of about 90 women >who obtained late-term abortions, offering the flimsy claim that he's >looking for evidence of crime. > *** > >Mr. Kline's campaign echoes a similar salvo last year by Attorney >General John Ashcroft. Federal judges eventually cited privacy laws to >stop his attempt to forage through hundreds of records at a half-dozen >hospitals. Two years ago, Mr. Kline called on health-care providers to >report underage sexual activity, but a federal judge ruled him out of >line. Mr. Kline deserves another rebuff, beginning with the suspension >of the gag order. > *** >It's not at all clear how that crime is linked in particular to >late-term abortions, which just happen to be the current target of >Republican anti-abortion activists across the country. Late-term >abortions - beyond 22 weeks of gestation - are illegal in Kansas, except >when they are done to protect a woman's health. But Mr. Kline offers >no evidence to suggest he has any legal ground to justify pawing through >the confidential records of the 90 women he has targeted for his mission >of harassment. As for predatory abuse of girls under the age of sexual >consent, they could have obtained abortions earlier than 22 weeks. > >There is no disputing that Mr. Kline has the duty and power to uphold >the law. No one wishes child abusers to walk free. But Mr. Kline also >has privacy laws to uphold. His demand for the clinics' records is not >only insupportable legally; it smacks of an ideological dragnet. > >http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/opinion/28mon2.html?pagewanted=print&positio >art > >-- >art fougner, md > > "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." >Lawrence Peter Berra > -- Joanne Bulley, MD Keene, NH, USA Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: discontinuation of tamoxifen" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: Clinics Ask State Supreme Court To Block Kansas AG's Investigation Involving Medical Records of Women Who Had Abortions"

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