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Judge Orders Removal of Medical Records from the Net

A Illinois state judge has ordered three anti-abortion activists to remove from the medical records of a patient from the Internet. The patient had experienced complications from an abortion, and the anti-abortion activists had obtained medical records of the incident and posted them online.

Judge Keeps Woman's Records Off Net, Yahoo News (AP), August 23, 2001.