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by johnnyo 899 days ago
I think the interest here is less about how it was used in the past, and how it might be used in the future.

With changing landscape of laws related to things like abortion and transgender rights, people are rightly worried that a zealous prosecutor in one state will subpoena for records of things like abortion drugs or hormone blockers, and use that data to start harassing or prosecuting people.

It sounds like it would be feasible for a prosecutor to ask for a list of all patients currently prescribed hormone blockers and then open child welfare cases against all those families across an entire state.