//US Justice Dept. Seeks Hundreds of Medical Records

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Smoke & Mirrors at work, and good way found to get "government foot in the door FOR VIEWING all PRIVATE HEALTH RECORDS" ..... Public won't complain, as it is only this issue ...... don't be fooled, this will NOT stop with this..

 

here is Big Government once again quietly sneaking around your rights of privacy ......... they have taken away so much, why not more ....

 

You know that once the privacy acted is "invaded" for just one type of info .....ALL TYPES WILL NOW BE FAIR GAME. So every time you go to a doctor or hospital, the U.S. Government is spying on you.

 

Much easier to target people for "vaccination program" .....

 

Probably so they can give the pharmaceutal companies any info they might need .... nothing like one had washing the other ....

 

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US Justice Dept. Seeks Hundreds of Medical Records

Ashcroft said the department agreed to take "every precaution possible" and to "mask much of the identifying characteristics of the patients" and "to expunge the identifying names." And we're supposed to believe HIM?

US Justice Dept. Seeks Hundreds of Medical Records Add Health - Reuters to My WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department (news - web sites) has subpoenaed Planned Parenthood (news - web sites) for the confidential medical records of hundreds of women as part of its defense against challenges to a federal law that bans a type of late-term abortion, the family planning organization said on Thursday. Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) said this month the records were needed to find out whether the procedure, called "partial birth abortion" by its critics, was medically necessary. "We believe that this is a sweeping invasion of medical privacy. Ashcroft has subpoenaed hundreds of confidential medical records and we're taking every step within the law to resist this," said Elizabeth Toledo, a spokeswoman for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Planned Parenthood said subpoenas had been served on Tuesday at six of its locations -- Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Washington, Kansas City and Pittsburgh. ABC News reported that the subpoenas demand hundreds of women's medical records for all surgical abortions performed in the past year at six Planned Parenthood affiliates. Ashcroft has asked that he medical records be turned over to the government on March 5, ABC reported. The Justice Department had no immediate comment. In efforts to defend against a number of lawsuits over a federal ban on certain late-term abortions, the Justice Department also has sought to obtain confidential medical records on abortion from several university hospitals. Abortion rights supporters challenging the ban in court have argued that, among other things, the controversial procedure can be medically necessary. The lawsuits were brought in November immediately after President Bush (news - web sites) signed the law banning the abortion procedure. A federal judge in New York said the information sought by the Justice Department could be turned over. But another federal judge in Chicago came to a different conclusion and ruled that would violate federal and state privacy laws. Ashcroft told reporters on Feb. 12 the Justice Department was "sensitive" to the issue that an individual's medical records should be kept private. He said the department agreed to take "every precaution possible" and to "mask much of the identifying characteristics of the patients" and "to expunge the identifying names." http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & u=/nm/20040227/hl_nm/rights_abortion_dc_3