[ExI] Right to medical information

[The Avantguardian]

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>From: Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> 
>Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 5:45 PM
>Subject: Re: [ExI] Right to medical information
>
>2012/3/15 Giovanni Santostasi <gsantostasi at gmail.com>:
>> How this is possible? Right to medical information should be sacred:
>>
>> https://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom/kansas-pregnant-women-little-lie-your-doctor-wont-hurt-you
>>
>> Giovanni
>
>Damn, Giovanni, this is pretty stinking frightening!!! Gives a whole
>new meaning to , "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore", in that
>Kansas has now become the domain of Oz.
>
>For those who didn't read the article, there is a law winding its way
>through the Kansas legislature allowing doctors who are opposed to
>abortion to "opt out" of telling women information about their coming
>baby that might lead the woman to get an abortion. Said information
>coming from an ultrasound or probably other procedures as well. Why
>even have the procedure if you can't trust the information!?! Even
>Mormon women sometimes abort babies with severe birth defects with a
>wink and a nod from the religious authorities. I'm shocked, absolutely
>shocked! I hope this is some kind of bizarre hoax, or that this bill
>hasn't a prayer... of course it is Kansas... land of intelligent
>design.

So the question I have is can a woman choose not to pay for the test that the doctor opts out of telling her the results of? I mean medical tests are already over-priced to begin with for what amounts to a small amount of data. If a doctor can deny you that small amount of data that you are paying dearly for, isn't that fraud or breach of contract? Furthermore does the doctor actually have to state ,"I do not desire to disclose your test results." Or can the doctor tell you a bold faced lie of "your baby is fine" when the baby has down's syndrome.
 
One consequence is that in Kansas one will never know if your OB/Gyn is pro-life or simply incompetent.
 
 

Stuart LaForge


"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." -Thucydides.