Court Declines To Hear Abortion-Files Case (Clinic does not have to turn over records)

[The Straight Story]

Court Declines To Hear Abortion-Files Case


COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit filed by the parents of a teenage girl that sought to have a Planned Parenthood clinic turn over a decades' worth of abortion records.

The court voted 4-3 this week not to hear the suit, leaving intact a state appeals court ruling last year that said the Cincinnati clinic did not have to turn over the records. Chief Justice Thomas Moyer dissented.

The girl's family alleges that the clinic unlawfully failed to get consent from a parent before performing an abortion on the girl, as required by Ohio law. The 2005 lawsuit sought records of other minors' abortion records going back 10 years in an effort show that the clinic had a pattern of violating the law.

Brian Hurley, the lawyer representing the girl's family, said he will ask the Supreme Court to reconsider.

http://www.nbc4i.com/midwest/cmh/news.apx.-content-articles-CMH-2008-01-25-0007.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Let's hear one for the Ohio Supreme Court! Go, Buckeyes!!

[Richard Steele]

2. Good- this was a classic fishing expedition, and deserved to be slapped down. K&R