[cyborg]

intrusion into patient's records

[jwalsh07]

murder

[jwalsh07]

Presumably, you are of the mind that the government also has no interest in gathering information on the spread of communicable diseases, HIV, cancer et al.

If so, then you are consistent, wrong but consistent. If not, then your opinion is relatively useless.

[dagnabbit]

intrusion into patient's records

intrusion into people's skulls

[spunkets]

" Ashcroft said the Justice Department will accept the records in edited form, after deleting or masking any information that would identify a patient.That means the Justice dept. only gets case histories w/o any ID, or hint where they came from. This is a valid subpoena, because it is relevant evidence regarding the claims made in the suit.

" Abortion-rights supporters nonetheless depicted the subpoenas as a dangerous intrusion into medical confidentiality.

There is no confidentiality concern here, because their are no names, or other ID. It's the facts of the claims being made by the hired killers that are under scrutiny here. The case histories are in fact what the killers are basing their claims on. The court should have those case histories in front of them for all to see. Then, and only then, will the truth be known about why these particular docs were stickin' kids with scissors.