Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Here we go again....

An Indiana judge ruled Tuesday that Planned Parenthood of Indiana must turn over to the state the medical records of its patients under 14.

Marion County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Johnson sided with the Indiana attorney general's office in its quest to examine the medical records of 84 young patients.

Planned Parenthood tried to stop the seizure, arguing that investigators were on a "fishing expedition," possibly to identify the partners of sexually active 12- and 13-year-olds. None of the 84 patients has received an abortion, according to Planned Parenthood....

Indiana law defines sexual activity with a child under 14 as child molesting, no matter how old the partner is.

Planned Parenthood said it will seek a stay delaying enforcement of the judge's ruling....


--AP

Astonishingly, it appears that no emergency room, pediatrician's office, or gynecologist's office has any information whatsoever that hasn't been provided to authorities but would be useful in this situation -- only abortion clinics! Wow, what are the odds?

And what are the odds that two Republican state attorneys general (the other, of course, being Phill Kline of Kansas) would have the same brilliant crime-fighting idea at the same time? (Go here for a March story in which both Kline and a spokesman for Carter deny coordinating their near-simultaneous assaults on the files of abortion providers.)

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