More for the Tyranny file
Feb. 13th, 2004 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsAccording to this article, John Ashcroft has subpoena'd the patient records of doctors who challenged the constitutionality of the Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003.
No crime is indicated in the article. As near as I can tell, this is strictly a fishing trip by Ashcroft's jackboots to find out who had an abortion before the law was passed. The Justice Depravement claims that it needs the records to test whether or not the procedure is ever "medically necessary" in its defense of the PBAA. This is the first time I've ever heard the Justice Depravement using subpoena power against acknowledged innocent people in a civil case over constitutional powers.
The willingness of the Bush administration to pass the Health Information Privacy Act and then casually violate that act should terrify people.
No crime is indicated in the article. As near as I can tell, this is strictly a fishing trip by Ashcroft's jackboots to find out who had an abortion before the law was passed. The Justice Depravement claims that it needs the records to test whether or not the procedure is ever "medically necessary" in its defense of the PBAA. This is the first time I've ever heard the Justice Depravement using subpoena power against acknowledged innocent people in a civil case over constitutional powers.
The willingness of the Bush administration to pass the Health Information Privacy Act and then casually violate that act should terrify people.
