How a legal loophole allows anti-abortion prosecutors to obtain women’s secret health data
Some leading drug store chains turn over customers’ private health care information without a warrant.
The American legal system has a message for women concerned about their abortion rights: Don’t make the mistake of thinking that your pharmacist is your friend.
Thanks to a gaping loophole in federal health care regulations, some of our leading drug store chains turn over customers’ most sensitive private health care information to law enforcement agencies, even without a warrant.
That’s the finding of a subcommittee headed by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., which learned that all eight of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains have routinely turned over prescription records of thousands of Americans to law enforcement agencies or other government entities secretly without a warrant.
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It's not just anti-abortion. This means that they can find out whether or not a woman is not necessarily using chemical abortion drugs, but just prescription birth control. This is a step toward making birth control illegal too.
Name and boycott. Fuck that shit. They are bad for your health and medicine should do no harm
Most all of them.
From the article: "The chains are CVS, Walgreens, Cigna, Optum Rx, Walmart, Kroger, Rite Aid and Amazon. CVS, Kroger and Rite Aid, which have a total of about 11,000 locations nationwide, don’t require store staff to run the requests past company lawyers before complying.
Only Amazon notifies customers that it received a subpoena or warrant for their prescription data."
You know it’s bad when Amazon is the good guy in this situation.
It's the top 8 chains. I didn't even know there were that many and it's got to be most of the pharmacies in the country. You can't boycott practically a whole industry.
The only realistic solution is changing laws.
What about small mom/pop pharmacies? I know its a bit different in the US sometimes with pharms being "in network" but I don't see the surveillance apparatus being too crazy about allowing that to happen
If there was a boycott big enough to matter, those pharmacies wouldn't have anywhere near the capacity to handle all the new patients they'd need to serve.
This type of shit causes civil wars.
The entire policing system of this country needs to be scrapped and started over from the ground up.
Speedrun pissing off bootlickers any%
What
Translation: This is a fast way to make supporters of police angry.
Terms used to define a challenge in a game where you attempt to reach the end as soon as possible^1^ without completing optional objectives (or sometimes main plot segments that can be skipped by abusing bugs)^2^.
Pissing off: To anger or upset.
Bootlicker: In context, this refers to supporters of police but may be used to describe supporters of other authorities.
Good.
Fucking pieces of shit. What the fuck.
Another reason to go with a small independent pharmacist.