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Protect Privacy Rights - Stop Intimidating Women!

Target: Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline
Sponsored by: Rebecca Young
Toto, Kansas is getting scary.

The Attorney General of Kansas is demanding that two abortion clinics turn over the complete medical records - including all patient information - of close to 90 women and girls. Attorney General Phill Kline claims he needs these medical records, complete with identifiable personal information, to investigate whether late-term abortions were legal and whether teenagers may have been victims of statutory rape.

This action is eerily reminiscent of former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's attempts to subpoena the medical records of women who had late-term abortions last year - several federal judges struck down his subpoenas. And these tactics are nothing short of intimidation. If Kline was truly only concerned with investigating statutory rape and late-term abortion practices, he would not need the personal information and complete medical history of individual patients.

Do you want the attorney general of your state rifling through your medical records and second-guessing your doctor's medical decisions?

Sign this petition to Attorney General Kline to let him know that while he may be trying to pry into the private lives of women in Kansas, we the people are watching him. Let him know this invasion of medical privacy is outrageous, and that he must stop his intimidating pursuit of women's private medical records.


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deadline: 3-2-2006
goal: 10,000
 

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Dear Attorney General Kline,

I have learned about your demand for the complete medical records of close to 90 women from two abortion clinics, and I am extremely disturbed.

[Your personal comments for Attorney General Kline]

Medical records are private, and doctors must have license to make medical decisions for their patients based on the history and information they have. To demand individual patients personal information and to second-guess doctors' decisions regarding a medical procedure you disapprove of is nothing short of intimidation.

There are a wide range of factors a doctor may examine in deciding whether or not a late-term pregnancy risks a woman's health. Some of these factors, including severe mental health problems or an abusive or dangerous spouse, may be intensely personal and private.

Please stop your intimidation campaign against the women of Kansas, and respect the medical privacy rights of these patients.

Thank you,

[Your name]
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As a member of the health care community I took an oath not to violate a patients right to confidentiality. The Attorney General is in violation of a law that was passed to protect all patients.
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our medical history is none of your busines
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