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Speaking as a nurse who has worked in OB/GYN clinics these tactics and charges are not only false but indeed meaningless. The receptionists or people manning appointment lines in clinics generally are not trained medical personnel; they would indeed be overstepping their boundries by in any way advising a prospective patient, although it sounds as though a few have done just this. It is the express responsiblity of the medical personnel in any clinic to take any action on claims that would lead to legal action, just as it would be not the responsiblity of a receptionist to take down the names of partner(s) of someone coming in for an STD check, most states require that all partners of someone who is tested as positve for STD's be informed. Any receptionist should be informing patients that the age(s) of those involved should be discussed with the provider they are seeing, to tell them that we won't tell is false on the part of the receptionist. The most fault that I believe could be found with Planned Parenthood would be that they should retrain their receptionists, as to the anti-choice group they should be sued under any applicable law.
