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Iowa D.A. Seeks Data on 100s of Prenatal Patients
The president of Iowa Planned Parenthood may be jailed for refusing to provide a county attorney--investigating the gruesome death of an abandoned newborn--with the names of 100s of clinic patients whose tests indicated that they were pregnant.
This is sort of like the thread on taking pictures of ppl on street corners.
I just read about this yesterday for the first time. This link is the best one I could find to explain the whole story. It's kind of scary to me- I wouldn't want them going to my doctor and looking through my medical records, then questioning me.
And yet, I want them to find out who the hell did this to that baby.
Unlike the thread on pictures of ppl standing on street corners, I do think women that go to a clinic like this have a BIG expectation of privacy. I also think that a mother who would give birth and put her baby in a recycling center probably wasn't receiving prenatal care at a clinic, or had even gone there for a pregnancy test. (meaning they probably won't be amongst those records anyway.)
Thoughts? Have there been any cases like this before where investigators have been able to go through medical records in order to find a BG?
"It wasn't me! It t'was the one armed man!"
[ 08-29-2002, 07:10 PM: Message edited by: ghost ]
The president of Iowa Planned Parenthood may be jailed for refusing to provide a county attorney--investigating the gruesome death of an abandoned newborn--with the names of 100s of clinic patients whose tests indicated that they were pregnant.
This is sort of like the thread on taking pictures of ppl on street corners.
I just read about this yesterday for the first time. This link is the best one I could find to explain the whole story. It's kind of scary to me- I wouldn't want them going to my doctor and looking through my medical records, then questioning me.
And yet, I want them to find out who the hell did this to that baby.
Unlike the thread on pictures of ppl standing on street corners, I do think women that go to a clinic like this have a BIG expectation of privacy. I also think that a mother who would give birth and put her baby in a recycling center probably wasn't receiving prenatal care at a clinic, or had even gone there for a pregnancy test. (meaning they probably won't be amongst those records anyway.)
Thoughts? Have there been any cases like this before where investigators have been able to go through medical records in order to find a BG?
"It wasn't me! It t'was the one armed man!"
[ 08-29-2002, 07:10 PM: Message edited by: ghost ]
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