If only Rush Limbaugh were an abortionist

Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeal ruled last week that its state’s attorney did not violate medical privacy rights when seizing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh’s medical records from four of his doctors.

It’s too bad Rush can’t tie the SA’s pill shopping investigation against him to abortion. Then legal authorities would consider his records off limits, even in the face of murder (of born people).

Liberal judges have different rules when it comes to abortion. These run contrary to all legal precedents and all laws that pertain to everything and everyone else – the only way to prop up the worst U.S. Supreme Court decision of all time, Roe v. Wade.

Consider the lawsuits pro-aborts filed against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban earlier this year.

“There’s no ‘health of the mother’ exception!” abortion proponents predictably protested with nary a pregnant pause before running to three friendly federal courts for help against anti-baby-brain-suctioning President Bush.

“But there’s never ever a medical reason for a ‘health of the mother’ exception,” U.S. Department Of Justice attorneys countered, ready with evidence compiled after years of research, expert evaluations and congressional hearings.

“Trust us, there is,” said the baby dismemberment aficionados.

“Prove it,” responded the DOJ, subpoenaing the aficionados’ medical records along with those from hospitals where they carved up their victims.

The DOJ, wanting only proof that suing abortionists even committed partial-birth abortion in the first place, and if they did, the medical indications, specified that all patient identifiers be removed from records.

Without missing a heartbeat – because they have none – abortion attorneys intoned that women’s right to privacy would be violated by releasing those records. And surprise, surprise: Potentially implicated hospitals also balked.

Although the argument made no sense (perhaps abortion proponents have been given the ability to read deleted names and addresses by the power of Satan, but normal people haven’t), it was the prompt liberal judges needed to follow their script.

Truth is another foreign concept liberal judges – and the media – never seem to require of abortion profiteers.

While abortion proponents say in the press that PBA is extremely rare, they said in court “many hundreds” of patients’ records were implicated, according to a National Abortion Federation attorney quoted in the New York Times. This vast number rendered the task of removing identifiers too cumbersome, he said.

So, to recap the PBA Ban lawsuit: A largely unregulated, wildly lucrative, corporate conglomerate sued the federal government for passing a safety regulation that cut into its profits; this after the government conducted years of research to corroborate that one of the corporation’s moneymaking schemes tortured and killed people. Plaintiffs told the court they wanted to testify as experts that their scheme was necessary for the common good without proving they were experts or that their scheme was necessary for the common good, and to overlook the fact they had a financial interest in testifying as experts for the common good.

That scenario is absurd to you and me, but not to liberal judges. All but one denied the DOJ’s subpoena, and all three federal courts ultimately sided with the abortion cartel in its lawsuit.

There was another case in 2002 where the abortion right to privacy trumped a murder investigation.

In Storm Lake, Iowa, a worker found the dismembered body of a newborn baby boy after he had been dumped in the garbage and shredded in the city’s recycler – a post-delivery abortion procedure.

With no leads, the sheriff’s office issued subpoenas to area hospitals and clinics seeking contact information of all women who had positive pregnancy tests for the previous nine months.

All facilities complied except the community’s standard-bearer of morality, the local Planned Parenthood, which said no.

The irony of requesting PP’s help in a baby murder investigation cannot go without mention.

The county prosecutor, Phil Havens, subpoenaed and won the first round against PP in court. But, he told me, “the controversy and the seemingly unlimited resources of PP vs. my limited resources,” caused him to abandon his suit.

The baby’s murder case remains unsolved.

Meanwhile, for standing in the way of the infanticide investigation, Jill June, president and CEO of PP of Greater Iowa, was given a 2002 Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year award.

Yes, if only Rush Limbaugh could tie his alleged petty crime to abortion, his medical privacy issues would be resolved. In fact, he could get away with murder.