Government
Calif. judge rules against records release in late-term abortion lawsuit
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted March 22, 2004
Planned Parenthood doesn't have to turn over abortion records to Attorney General John Ashcroft, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled in March. The organization last year sued the government to stop a law known as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, arguing it doesn't include an exception for medical necessity.
Ashcroft argued he needed patient records and charts to prove the government's position that the procedure is never medically necessary.
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