by Scott Ott
(2004-10-06) -- Florida's 4th District Court of Appeals inadvertently overturned the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling today when it denied Rush Limbaugh's petition to protect his right of privacy regarding medical records.
A spokesman for the court said that by ruling Mr. Limbaugh had no right to privacy regarding medical records, it denied the central tenet of the 1972 Roe V. Wade ruling in which the Supreme Court found that the right to privacy protected a woman's right to an abortion, at least for several months.
"On behalf of the 4th District Court of Appeals," the unnamed spokesman said, "Oops."
"The court wasn't trying to ban abortion," he added. "We just wanted to protect the right of the state to seize medical documents that are unrelated to a future, potentially-criminal, case in which the future alleged defendant might conceivably be charged."
Mr. Limbaugh, a radio talkshow host and unpaid advisor to the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign, told a reporter "If you want a reaction quote from me, you'll have to get a search warrant. But if you get the warrant, you can have every word I've ever spoken."
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