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pregnancy privacy challenge.
20021023
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"Judge
Drops Pregnancy Records Request." ... "A Buena Vista
District Court judge has vacated an order that would have required Planned
Parenthood to turn over pregnancy records." -By Pat
Mack -KTIV
20021022
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"Judges
Lifts Pregnancy Records Order: Judge Lifts
Order for Pregnancy Records Sought in Investigation of Abandoned Baby."
... "A judge on Tuesday lifted an order that would have required Planned
Parenthood to provide pregnancy-test records that authorities had hoped
would lead them to the mother of a dead baby boy."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
20021014
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OPINION
- "Doctors’
files: Closed!" ... "To the pleasant surprise of
just about anyone paying attention, officials from anti-abortion Women’s
Choice Center in Bettendorf stood behind Planned Parenthood. The dog put
its arm around the cat." ... " “Whether women go to a private clinic, Planned
Parenthood or a pro-life clinic, they come under the assumption that their
case is private,” Women’s Choice director Lynn Grandon said last month."
-By Barb Ickes -QCTimes
20021010
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"Officials
yield in demand for records of pregnancy." ... "Tom
Miller, Iowa's attorney general, asked the Iowa Supreme Court on Wednesday
to send the case back to a lower court so the Buena Vista County attorney
can withdraw a court order demanding pregnancy-test records from the Planned
Parenthood clinic in Storm Lake." ... "Still, Planned Parenthood of Greater
Iowa's legal fight isn't over, officials warned." -By
Staci Hupp -DesMoinesRegister
20020908
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"Sheriff
demands records of Iowa clinic: Pregnancy data
sought in probe of infant death." ... "Two Storm Lake doctors' offices
and the hospital provided names of expectant mothers who could not be accounted
for. Yet when deputies showed up with a subpoena for the names and addresses
of women who had undergone pregnancy tests, Planned Parenthood resisted."
... "The clinic, which serves six counties, does not perform abortions."
... "Sheriff's deputies trying to find the mother have inquired at schools
and churches and have run DNA tests on a few women who were thought to
have been pregnant. -By Hannah Wolfson
-AP via -Boston/Globe
20020824
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"Privacy
Furor Over Subpoena in Baby's Death." ... "The State
Supreme Court stayed enforcement of the subpoena but has given no indication
of when it will act on Planned Parenthood's appeal. The group contends
that Judge Frank B. Nelson of State District Court, who issued the subpoena
on June 24, should have conducted a hearing to determine whether the prospects
of finding the killer justified "the extreme and indiscriminate invasion
of constitutional rights" involved in the inevitable questioning that would
follow." ... "Mr. Havens ["Philip E. Havens, the county attorney of Buena
Vista County"] responded on Monday with a brief contending that Planned
Parenthood had missed the deadline for appealing Judge Nelson's ruling,
that it had failed to raise the issues at the district level that it was
now arguing before the higher court, and that it had not met its burden
of proving to the judge that the pregnancy tests involved care by a doctor
or nurse and thus could qualify as medical records." -By
Adam Clymer -NYTimes
via -Moreover
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"Clinic
decries pregnancy subpoena." ... "Jennifer Dalven,
a staff lawyer at the Reproductive Freedom Project at the American Civil
Liberties Union, said the significance of the Storm Lake case went beyond
the ''extraordinary government intervention into people's private lives''
in Iowa. Surveys showed, Dalven said, that fear of disclosure of medical
records led as many as one person in six to keep information from doctors,
change doctors frequently or avoid medical attention." -By
Adam Clymer -NYTimesvia
-Miami/Herald
20020821
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"Attorney:
Clinic missed appeal deadline." ... "Planned Parenthood
officials filed a Supreme Court appeal on Aug. 2, 39 days after the lower
court's initial ruling, [Iowa's Buena Vista} County Attorney Phil Havens
said in court documents." ... "Sandra Suarez, a staff attorney for Planned
Parenthood of Greater Iowa, said Tuesday that the 30-day deadline didn't
apply until the judge's second ruling July 15, which set a deadline for
Planned Parenthood to open its records." -By Staci
Hupp -DesMoinesRegister
20020816
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OPINION
- "Editorial:
The issue is medical privacy: Don't let emotions
cloud the stakes in the Storm Lake dead-baby case." ... "... this case
is no longer just about finding the mother of a dead infant. It's about
the possibility of setting a precedent that allows law enforcement broad
access to everyone's medical records. If a blood sample containing a certain
medication is found at a crime scene, does that give police access to medical
records from all the hospitals and doctors['] offices of anyone taking
that medication? If police have a DNA sample in a rape, can they go on
a fishing expedition for every tissue sample in local hospitals and clinics
in search of a match?" ... "The Storm Lake case isn't about women's rights.
It's isn't about dead infants. It isn't about abortion. It's about medical
privacy. And it needs to be judged outside its emotionally charged circumstances."
-By Register Editorial Board
-DesMoinesRegister / News
20020813
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"Is
pregnancy a privacy issue?" ... ""This was a heinous
crime that demands justice," said Jill June, director of Planned Parenthood
of Greater Iowa. "I feel horrible and this needs to be solved and we want
to help, but what they are asking for is illegal and unethical. This is
a blatant violation of a patient's rights to privacy."" ... "Local prosecutor
Phil Havens argues that privacy is not an absolute right. "If the rights
of society are greater, then those rights should prevail ... We have a
dead baby and there is no way we can investigate the crime without knowing
who the mother is."" -By Waynce Loewe -CourtTV.com
via -CNN
20020811
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OPINION
-"A
Question of Medical Privacy." ... "... lots of innocent
women did use the clinic and were promised confidentiality when they did
so, and the cost to their privacy could be substantial. Some of these women
likely had abortions -- though the clinic in question does not perform
them -- and their families may not have known about their pregnancies.
Some may have miscarried and wish to keep that secret."
-WashingtonPost
20020808
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"Tears,
love of strangers: Newborn found abandoned
is buried." ... "A baby boy found dead in the trash more than two months
ago was buried Wednesday in a cemetery where strangers wept, prayed and
said words the child might never have heard: "I love you."" -By
Staci Hupp -DesMoinesRegister
/ News
20020807
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"Clinic
can keep names confidential for now: Planned
Parenthood spared penalty by Iowa high court." ... "The Iowa Supreme Court
blocked an order Tuesday that would have forced Planned Parenthood to give
up the names by next week of about 1,000 women who took pregnancy tests
at a Storm Lake clinic." ... "It was Planned Parenthood's first victory
in a month-old, unprecedented medical privacy fight with Buena Vista County,
where investigators are looking for the mother of a newborn boy found dead
at a recycling center May 30." -By Staci Hupp
-DesMoinesRegister / News
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"Court
blocks search of pregnancy data: Death probe
raises privacy concerns." ... "On Tuesday, the Iowa Supreme Court granted
a stay of the lower court's order [for Storm Lake's Planned Parenthood
clinic to turn over women's pregnancy tests in the investigation of a dead
infant discovered at a recycling center] while it decides whether it will
hear Planned Parenthood's appeal [not to reveal the names]." ... "That
some medical providers turned over information about pregnant women has
outraged some in this community of about 10,000 people...." ... "One woman
is considering legal action against her medical clinic after it turned
over her test information without her permission." -By
John McCormick
-ChicagoTribune
20020806
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"Iowa
Planned Parenthood Granted Stay." ... "Planned Parenthood
will not have to turn over pregnancy test records to Buena Vista County
authorities under a temporary stay granted Tuesday by the Iowa Supreme
Court." -By Melanie S. Welte
-WashingtonPost
20020719
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"Clinic's
case lacks proof, judge warns: Planned Parenthood
could have trouble appealing a ruling on pregnancy tests." ... "A lack
of evidence early in its case could hurt Planned Parenthood's chances of
winning a dispute over pregnancy-test records, according to a judge's ruling."
-By
Staci Hupp -DesMoinesRegister
20020718
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"[Iowa]
Judge: Planned Parenthood must release pregnancy records."
... "A state judge upheld his decision that pregnancy test records aren't
confidential and ordered Planned Parenthood to turn over records to help
investigators find the mother of a newborn whose body was dumped in the
trash." -AP
via -CNN
20020708
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"Iowa
D.A. Seeks Data on 100s of Prenatal Patients." ...
"The president of Iowa Planned Parenthood may be jailed for refusing to
provide a county attorney--investigating the gruesome death of an abandoned
newborn--with the names of 100s of clinic patients whose tests indicated
that they were pregnant." ... "In this case, law enforcement is seeking
the pregnancy test results although the authorities have not identified
a suspect and therefore have no reason to believe that the mother was a
clinic patient. Authorities don't even know that the mother lived in the
area."
-By Rekha Basu
-WomensEnews.org
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PPGI.org - "Planned Parenthood of Greater
Iowa."
20020706
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"Officials
deny plan for clinic arrests." ... "No one from Planned
Parenthood will be arrested any time soon for refusing to turn over pregnancy-test
records in connection with the case of a newborn boy's body found shredded
at a recycling center, Buena Vista County officials said Friday." ... "While
other clinics complied, Planned Parenthood challenged the court order by
District Judge Frank Nelson, saying records of pregnancy tests are confidential
and protected by law." -By Lynn Okamoto
-DesMoinesRegister / News
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"Opposing
advocates share views on records." ... "Abortion-rights
advocates who run Planned Parenthood and abortion opponents who run Birthright
usually find little in common, but a flap in Iowa over medical records
has put both groups on the same side." ... "Like Planned Parenthood, which
has resisted a judge's order to turn over pregnancy-test records, Birthright
won't reveal details about pregnant women who come to the nonprofit organization
for help, a spokeswoman said Friday." -By Frank Santiago
-DesMoinesRegister / News
20020704
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"Discussion
widens on quest for records of pregnancy tests:
CNN appearances turn the fight over pregnancy-test records in Storm Lake
into a national issue." ... "The Buena Vista County attorney pressed ahead
Wednesday with plans to arrest the director of Planned Parenthood of Greater
Iowa as a fight over pregnancy-test records at a Storm Lake clinic escalated
into a national debate." -By Staci Hupp -DesMoinesRegister
/ News
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"Privacy
at issue in Iowa baby corpse mystery: Planned
Parenthood ordered to turn over pregnancy tests." -By
Brian Cabell -CNN
20020703
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"Iowa
judge orders Planned Parenthood to hand over pregnancy tests."
... "Authorities want the records containing the names of women who tested
positive for pregnancy in five area clinics and hospitals. They hope to
learn the names of all those women who were pregnant between August 2001
and May." -AP
via -MercuryNews
20020702
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"Planned
Parenthood fights order on records: Planned
Parenthood cites patient privacy; Buena Vista officials say no medical
records are involved." ... "Planned Parenthood officials in Iowa are fighting
a judge's order to provide investigators with the names of women who took
pregnancy tests in Buena Vista County, where the search for the mother
of a newborn baby left at a recycling center in May has hit a snag." -By
Staci Hupp -DesMoinesRegister
/ News
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- A one to two day old newborn boy was found dead at a Storm Lake, Iowa
trash recycling center on 30 May 2002.
With no leads, prosecutors subpoened area hospitals and clinics of all
records of women who had tested pregnant in the previous nine and half
months (15 August 2001 to 30 May 2002).
Officials do not known whether the mother of the infant had been to
any of the area hospitals or clinics, nor was it known if the woman was
a local resident.
While Storm Lake area hospitals apparently complied with the prosecutors
request, the Planned Parenthood clinic for the area refused to turn over
the women's records or identities.
The clinic explained that they had promised the women that their pregnancy
results would remain private and would fight the matter in court.
Local officials claimed that the pregnancy tests were not medical records
because they had not been administered by medical professionals.
The Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa's director, Jill June, was reportedly
threatened with jail if the records were not provided.
Iowa's Buena Vista District Court Judge Frank B. Nelson ordered the
records to be turned over by 17 August 2002.
Planned Parenthood appealed the decision to the Iowa Supreme Court.
On 6 August 2002 the Iowa Supreme Court granted a temporary stay. |
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