Ashcroft: Abortion Records Needed
So tell me, when did attorneys determine whether a procedure is medically necessary? Why aren't Justice Department lawyers attempting to obtain any OTHER types of medical records to see if any OTHER procedures are medically necessary? Does anyone else see the irony in lawyers second guessing doctor/patient decisions? How's about wondering what our marvelous attorney general might try to dig into next? Prescription records of people he doesn't like? Head injury records to try to prove enemies are nuts? Records to prove people have AIDS or other STDs? Privacy? What's THAT?
Attorney General John D. Ashcroft defended efforts by the Justice Department to obtain the confidential medical records of patients who have undergone a type of late-term abortion, saying yesterday that attorneys representing the government in a lawsuit need the documents to determine if the procedures were medically necessary. [Washington Post: Nation and Politics]