...I cannot find any words to describe the absolute horror I feel towards this case. Just thinking about the details of this case makes me want to weep profusely. I am mortified to think that ANY person is so sick to do this. I hope that the Sheriff finds this woman and puts HER through the shredder for this terrible crime.
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I support PP on this question. The case is about the privacy of medical records not about abortion.
I wonder why the Traditional Values Coalition didn't note in its press release that the pro-life organization
Birthright would also refuse to release the names of women who took pregnancy tests at their local facility?
Exactly what is the sheriff doing with the names of the women that have been gathered from the other clinics? Is he calling them up and asking to see their babies for proof the women didn't kill them? Why doesn't the sheriff subpeona records from stores that sell home pregnancy tests (he could match up names from credit card/debit card/affinity card purchases)? Why doesn't he subpeona the nearest sperm bank for a list of men who have "donated," and do some DNA testing to see if there is a match?
There is no question that a horrific crime was committed. But the fishing expedition being carried out by the sheriff is too many steps away from reasonably trying to identify this baby's killer.
Planned Parenthood is standing in the way of a murder investigation. No, Planned Parenthood is standing in the way of a giant fishing expedition.
According to county attorney Phil Havens, these records do not fall under doctor/patient confidentiality agreements because the pregnancy tests were administered by non-physicians.
I have yet to have my blood drawn, urine collected, or X-ray administered by a *physician*, so I suppose those aren't medical records either according to Phil Havens. That's preposterous.
And I guess the Rev. Sheldon didn't see fit to mention that other clinics in the area haven't complied with the order either, submitting instead only public birth records.
I assume Rev. Sheldon also thought that the order, which requested pregnancy test results from August of 2001 until May of 2002(the month when the baby boy was delevered, dumped in the trash, and shredded)was perfectly reasonable in its scope too. Surely the test results of a woman who might have just missed her first period would help them find the mother of a NEWBORN abandoned a week or two later, right? After all some woman might have brought a baby to term in two months instead of the usual nine. Musta been a miracle, eh, Reverend?