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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAcross the country, activists are pursuing private abortion details using public records laws:
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Across the country, activists are pursuing private abortion details using public records laws: http://propub.ca/1JXZvjH
http://www.propublica.org/article/activists-pursue-private-abortion-details-using-public-records-laws?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1440543670
Activists Pursue Private Abortion Details Using Public Records Laws
Across the country, those who support abortion rights and those who oppose them are feuding in court over how much information should be disclosed about women undergoing abortions. Supporters say theres no margin for error. Opponents say its about ensuring quality care.
This story was co-published with the Washington Post.
by Charles Ornstein
ProPublica, Aug. 25, 2015, 7 p.m.
.........................The legal skirmish, and others like it nationwide, reveal a quiet evolution in the nations abortion battle. Increasingly, abortion opponents are pursuing personal and medical information on women undergoing abortions and the doctors who perform them. They often file complaints with authorities based on what they learn.
Abortion opponents insist their tactics are generally not aimed at identifying women who have abortions but to uncover incidents involving patients who may have been harmed by poor care or underage girls who may have been sexually abused. They say they are trying to prevent situations such as the one involving Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted in 2013 of murdering three babies after botched abortions and of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a woman.
This is about saving the lives of women, said Cheryl Sullenger, senior policy adviser for the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, which is based in Wichita, Kansas. A lot of people dont understand that. Its a systemic problem within the abortion industry today for abortion providers to cut corners on patient care.
But those who support abortion rights say the ultimate aim of these activists is to reduce abortions by intimidating women and their doctors using the loss of privacy as a weapon. They say their opponents are amassing a wealth of details that could be used to identify patients turning women, and their doctors, into pariahs or even targets. In a New Mexico case, a womans initials and where she lived became public as part of an investigation triggered by a complaint from activists......................
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Across the country, activists are pursuing private abortion details using public records laws: (Original Post)
riversedge
Aug 2015
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anybody who believes that this isn't about intimidating, harrassing and threatening women
niyad
Aug 2015
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TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)1. Identifying These Women And The Doctors Likely To Endanger Lives.
In this heated and incendiary environment these people pursing legal activities could find themselves in danger. All of a sudden the anti reproductive rights people are going ballistic. They seem to be willing to pursue any means to quash reproductive rights.
niyad
(113,573 posts)2. anybody who believes that this isn't about intimidating, harrassing and threatening women
and their medical providers is an absolute idiot.
niyad
(113,573 posts)3. if they win, I want ALLLLL these assholes' medical records, every single bit of their private
information.
forget about IF they win--they ask for OUR information, I want THEIRS!! down to the last friggen' detail!
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)4. wtf. We truly are in Handmaid's Tale territory here. :(
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)5. How is this NOT a violation of HIPAA?