DETROIT, March 15, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A federal judge Friday ordered the release of records from the University of Michigan Health System. The order was in response to a continued obstruction to medical files by the plaintiffs—abortionists and hospitals challenging the constitutionality of the partial-birth abortion ban. The US Justice Department seeks to substantiate the claim by abortionists that partial-birth abortions were necessary for the health of the mother.
The Justice Department is defending the Ban introduced by President Bush last November that states, in part, that “partial-birth abortion is a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary.” U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn in Detroit ordered the U-M hospital to make the records available to abortionist Timothy Johnson, chair of U-M’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, one of seven abortionists who launched the suit. The records are to be sent to U.S. District Judge Richard Casey for use in the trial in New York, set to commence March 29.
Read local coverage: https://www.freep.com/news/health/abort13_20040313.htm Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage: “Activist Judge Bars US Justice Department Access to Medical Files”: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/mar/04030901.html “US Department of Justice Thwarted in Bid to Secure Women’s Records in Partial Birth Abortion Ban Defence:” https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/04022707.html