(The Center Square) – A group of federal legislators are demanding answers from an organization regarding information on women’s reproductive health.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, and six other senators penned a letter to Heartbeat International, an anti-abortion organization supporting thousands of crisis centers in the United States, wanting information regarding the collection and use of personal data, including health care information.
Joining Warren in signing the letter are senators Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii; Cory Booker, D-NJ; Bernie Sanders, I-VT; Ron Wyden, D-Ore; Ed Markey, D-Mass; and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
“Heartbeat International – which is explicitly opposed to abortion rights – appears to be in a position to collect a significant amount of personal information from women about their pregnancies and potential plans for managing their care, but it is not under any legal obligation to maintain the confidentiality of this information or keep it out of the hands of abortion bounty hunters,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter.
Heartbeat International, according to the release, works to “make abortion unwanted today and unthinkable for future generations” and the organization has tracked personal data including names, address, phone numbers, and reproductive health information.
Raising significant concerns, the lawmakers said, is that crisis pregnancy centers, and other organizations working in the same manner, are not subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and are not legitimate medical facilities.
“We fear that, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that stripped women of their right to an abortion, this information may be used to put women’s health and freedom to choose in jeopardy, and to put them and their health care providers at risk of criminal penalties,” the lawmakers wrote.
According to the release, the lawmakers are acting following the overturning Roe v. Wade combined with the push of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, for a national abortion ban. Warren and the other senators are raising concern about Heartbeat International’s practices regarding collecting data from women who are seeking legitimate abortion care.
In the letter, the senators are asking the organization to answer its questions, according to the release, by Oct. 3.
This is a fishing expedition to find a way to discover DIRT on an organization that is in stark contrast to the liberal darling, Planned Parenthood, which has nothing to do with planning or parenthood but the exact opposite. Perhaps they are afraid President Clinton’s words will come true, it would be ‘rare,’ with no need for PP and LIFE would be affirmed.
AND how in anyway, shape or form, IS ABORTION “Reproductive health”???
“We fear that, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that stripped women of their right to an abortion“
#1. The supreme court DID NOT strip women of their right to an abortion.
The supreme court just followed the U.S. Constitution Amendment 10 – “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The court just said that it was up to each individual State and its citizens.
#2. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution gives a women the right to murder her unborn baby.
#3. Exactly what human right gives a woman the right to murder her unborn baby?
What about the Baby’s human rights?
A woman’s body ends at the end of the baby’s umbilical cord and the baby’s body begins.
It is NOT YOUR BODY THAT YOU ARE KILLING, it is the baby’s body!!
Why is she so concerned about abortion??
I can’t imagine that scare-crow being pregnant to begin with.
She should be haunting houses. It’s getting close to Hallow’een.
Abortion is not health care. Life begins at conception. If it started with a human egg and human sperm it is a human life. If you have an abortion you kill human life.
Women of America have been brain washed by Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry
Yes, I said industry. It is a highly profitable business. That’s why for 50 years the Dem’s have supported it.