In the wake of stinging rebuke from a federal judge in San Francisco, the Injustice Department has dropped its demand that six Planned Parenthood clinics around the country produce medical records on abortions, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Privacy advocates and abortion rights supporters called the action "bittersweet," partly because DOJ specifically reserved the right to renew the demand later. But for now, they can savor the victory.
Meanwhile, DOJ is still demanding abortion records from at least a half-dozen hospitals as part of a separate lawsuit brought in New York over the same abortion restrictions involved in the Planned Parenthood suit. Federal judges in that case have split on the issue, with one in Chicago quashing the subpoenas and one in New York upholding them.
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