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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Kwame Raoul

To stop abortions, 19 GOP attorneys general want access to women’s medical information. They won’t get it from Illinois.

Abortion rights advocates march in a July 2022 demonstration. (Elizabeth Rymut/Sun-Times)

A recent letter, sent under the signature of 19 Republican state attorneys general, demands that the Biden administration allow states with abortion bans to obtain the private medical records of patients seeking legal health care in other states. 

In sending this letter, they have made their priorities clear: These attorneys general will use their resources to intimidate women across state lines and weaponize patients’ private health care information against them because they sought legal, and often life-saving, medical care. 

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