Doctor says she shouldn't have to turn over patients' abortion records

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

An Indiana doctor who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim has asked a judge to stop the Indiana attorney general from accessing patient medical records as part of an investigation into consumer complaints her lawyers have called a "sham."

Attorneys for Caitlin Bernard, an OB/GYN affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine, and Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) met Friday for an emergency hearing to determine whether to allow a subpoena of the 10-year-old patient's medical charts while a lawsuit seeking to permanently halt Rokita's investigation plays out.

Bernard's lawyers said Rokita's efforts to obtain the patient's medical charts are a troubling violation of patient privacy that, if allowed, would shake trust in doctor-patient confidentiality. The state countered that Rokita's office is allowed to access the records as it investigates complaints accusing Bernard of professional lapses.

Friday's courtroom battle began four months after Bernard made headlines for treating the 10-year-old rape victim, who was forced to seek an abortion out of state because of Ohio's six-week abortion ban taking effect immediately after Roe v. Wade was struck down. Since then, legal fighting has intensified and become more politicized as the landscape of abortion access in the United States continues to shift.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctor-says-she-shouldnt-turn-124152057.html

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

Assholes filed bullshit complaints solely to get those medical records.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. This is an absolute disgrace. Dr./Patient confidentiality is...

the least we have to worry about when idiocy like this is being pushed.

[Irish_Dem]

3. 21st century witch hunts. Going after a 10 yr old rape victim's doctor.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. What ever happened to HIPAA?

Ans "small government"?

[Hekate]

6. Exactly

[ShazzieB]

9. You mean this kind of small government? 😉

[Arazi]

10. They're investigating the "crime" of "murder". HIPAA doesn't apply

If there’s criminal activity, HIPAA goes out the window and medical records are fair game.

Folks are continuing to see abortion as healthcare. That’s a fatal mistake.

Abortion is now a crime. Murder to be exact.

Proceed with eyes wide open

[Mad_Machine76]

15. Abortion hadn't been restricted here in Indiana when she treated this patient though

[Volaris]

14. If the SC court decides there's no right to privacy, HIPAA being unenforceable

Will be the least of our worries...

[gratuitous]

5. Dobbs has unleashed a million Inspectors Javert

Sadly, before they can be corralled again, millions upon millions of women will suffer and many women will die needlessly of treatable pregnancy complications.

[Beaverhausen]

7. Under his eye

🤬

[ShazzieB]

8. That AG should be ashamed of himself. 😠😡🤬

There is absolutely NO reason he needs to "investigate" Dr. Bernard or violate that poor little girl's privacy in such a callous manner. This is nothing but political theater, being enacted for no purpose other than to put on a show for his base of how "pro-life" (God, how I LOATHE that term) he is!

What is he REALLY? A disgusting, disingenuous, dissimulating, slimy, skeevy politician who doesn't actually care one bit about the welfare of that little girl or others like her and is perfectly happy to exploit what happened to her for his own political benefit. He makes me SICK!!!!!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. Damned Nazis.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. "Patients'" or "patient's"?

One patient or several patients?

Thanks.

[MissMillie]

13. What authority does an Indiana AG have to investigate a state "crime" in Ohio?

Where's the "states' rights" crowd in denying this farce? They could be winners on two fronts of this situation: states' rights and privacy rights.

The "my freedom" folks are obviously not at all concerned with freedom.