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The Kansas Supreme Court temporarily stopped AG Phil Kline’s efforts to paw through the private medical records of patients at two Kansas abortion clinics.

In 2004, Anderson issued subpoenas at Kline’s request for the records of clinics operated by Dr. George Tiller in Wichita and Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri in Overland Park, a Kansas City suburb. The records involve 90 women and girls.

The Supreme Court said the subpoenas could infringe on the patients’ rights to maintain privacy about personal and sexual matters, to receive confidential health care and to obtain a lawful abortion without an undue governmental burden.

Writing for the court, Justice Carol Beier agreed with Kline that the state needs to pursue criminal investigations, but said ”the type of information sought by the state here could hardly be more sensitive, or the potential harm to patient privacy posed by disclosure more substantial.”

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  3. This guy has all the moral high ground of a cop who extorts free service from prostitutes in exchange for not turning them in. In fact that’s exactly what he’s doing. Have an abortion, he’ll search through your private medical records for evidence of underage sex. Do him a “little favor” and have the baby, and he’ll look the other way.

    Such a lovely world we live in, where what passes for law enforcement can profit from the existance of rape and abuse by using it to justify his anti-choice harassment.

  4. The article I saw said the case was remanded for clarification as to how the subpoenas could be honored while still respecting patient privacy. It was kind of a hollow victory, and not what I was really hoping for.

    What’s the matter with Kansas?!

  5. This move in Kansas only reflects the truth that the general public still as a whole views women’s sexual behavior as an activity worthy of governmental interference and control.

    The religious right has scored a huge victory in the past twenty years by dredging up our long history of mysonigy and using abortion as a means to continue it.

    We live in a patriarchy that needs to subordination of women in order to survive. Abortion represents the last hold-out for women’s equal footing in this society as they will not or cannot be trapped by their anatomy, into submission or subordination to male sexuality.

    It is little surprise to me that the ‘family values’ people scream bloody at abortion. Family values means female subordination to male sexuality, period.

    How else could funding for viagra be supported while funding for reproductive control for women be defunded?

  8. This “doctor” tiller is a monster. He has numerous occasions of women being injured and dying at his hand. As a matter of fact, you can read about one specific story here.

    These abortion providers prey on women. Women die because of either the incompetence, apathy or malignancy of this man. And you are defending him??? This guy is like the Adolph Hitler of “women’s health services”.

    This man is a criminal. His abortion mill needs to be shut down. There is a petition to give the event of Christin’s death to a grand jury.

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