Just a quick update about a post I made last week: The Kansas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a grand jury from getting hold of partially redacted medical records from an abortion clinic. [Hat tip: Women's Bioethics Project]
Think what you will about abortion, but imagine mass release of medical records for all sorts of supposed reasons and see if you like it. How about release of records of AIDS patients? Those with certain kinds of cancers? STDs? Heart issues or high blood pressure. I can imagine in my own wee brain lots of reasons various groups could try to obtain such records for "reasonable" reasons. but it wouldn't make it any less creepy.
Score one for the right-to-privacy perspective. We'll see if it holds up.
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