{"id":125856,"date":"2016-09-13T20:05:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T00:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=125856"},"modified":"2016-09-14T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:29:26","slug":"is-private-medical-information-safe-at-abortion-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/is-private-medical-information-safe-at-abortion-clinics\/","title":{"rendered":"Is private medical information really safe at abortion clinics?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Think your private medical information is safe with Planned Parenthood or your local abortion facility?\u00a0Think again.<\/p>\n

In this two-part series, Live Action News examines the safety of medical information at abortion facilities. Our investigative findings should cause patients who use these facilities to seriously question whether the private information they are handing over to abortion providers will remain secure.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot from KTRK report: Woman finds abandoned abortion records in north Houston warehouse<\/p><\/div>\n

Privacy is very important to most Americans and the abortion lobby thrives on fear tactics that claim a woman’s privacy is being denied if she cannot obtain an abortion. But what if the abortion or medical service she obtains is not kept private by the provider? Will the woman’s “private secret” now be in the hands of strangers who could expose her abortion or steal her identity?<\/p>\n

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Medical records left behind by a Michigan abortion clinic (Image credit: Lynn Mills)<\/p><\/div>\n

It is not far-fetched to wonder if\u00a0an industry which has been caught on video allegedly selling aborted baby parts and covering for child sexual abusers would also be careless about the private medical information they obtain from their patients.\u00a0Here’s a\u00a0review of examples where the abortion industry has been caught mishandling patient data:<\/p>\n