Posted on 03/25/2005 1:39:30 PM PST by billorites
(Washington) - Planned Parenthood officials are criticizing prosecutors in Indiana and Kansas for trying to seize medical records of patients. The organization calls it a coordinated attempt to intimidate health care providers and patients.
In Indiana, Planned Parenthood sued the state last week to stop the seizure of its clients' medical records. The records do not cover patients seeking abortions, but other services.
The lawsuit filed in Indianapolis seeks injunctions barring Attorney General Steve Carter and his Medicaid fraud control unit from searching the private records of clients at 40 Planned Parenthood clinics across the state. Carter says he is investigating reports of sexual abuse against minors.
Vs.
The right to privacy as enumerated in some ethereal corner of the Constitution.
Planned Parenthood's privacy practice is nothing more than protecting child molesters.
Kids don't have a right to privacy. I used that one on my mom when I was 15. She came into my room anyway.
The 'right to privacy' was 'found' in "penumbras and emanations" that some members of SCOTUS saw floating around the Constitution.
One or more of them must have been on LSD at the time.
Was it Justice Douglas or Brennan? Either way, he didn't need LSD, given the ravages of senile dementia.
Planned Parenthood is legendary for child abuse and protecting rapists.
Estelle T. GRISWOLD et al. Appellants,
v.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
(1965)
381 U.S. 479, 85 S.Ct. 1678
Mr. Justice Douglas, held that the Connecticut law forbidding use of contraceptives unconstitutionally intrudes upon the right of marital privacy saying:
"The foregoing cases suggest that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance." At page 1681
The 'right to privacy' was 'found' in "penumbras and emanations" that some members of SCOTUS saw floating around the Constitution.
Yeah, I just finished reading "Men in Black" a week and a half ago. This is one of the many examples from the book. I was left marveling about how absurdly flimsy some of exuses for judicial activism have been.
There's been more than enough hypocrisy going around on all sides recently.
That isn't hypocrisy, it's a double standard. Abortions for minors on demand without informing or obtaining consent from parents, and stipulating the arrest of a parent who would dare to intefere, while banning gun sales to minors and requiring government permission for each and every gun purchase, bar none. (And, that's the difference between a right recently discovered to be conferred by an emanation and/or penumbra, vs. one explicitly stated outright in the Bill of Rights.)
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