Informed or Misinformed Consent? Abortion Policy in the United States
| Autor: | Grace Howard, Amanda Roberti, Cynthia R. Daniels, Janna Ferguson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Context (language use) Abortion Statute 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine State (polity) Informed consent Pregnancy Medicine Humans Health policy media_common 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine 030505 public health Informed Consent Consumer Health Information business.industry Health Policy Abortion Induced United States Constitutionality Law Human anatomy Female 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of health politics, policy and law. 41(2) |
| ISSN: | 1527-1927 |
| Popis: | Since 2010, the United States has witnessed a dramatic expansion of state-based restrictions on abortion. The most common of these are informed consent statutes, which require that a woman seeking an abortion receive a state-authored informational packet before the abortion procedure can be performed. These laws, in addition to requiring the provision of information about alternatives to and risks of abortion, all also require details of embryological and fetal development. This article presents the findings of a comprehensive study of state-authored informed consent materials regarding embryological and fetal development. To conduct this study, we recruited a panel of experts in human anatomy to assess the accuracy of these materials in the context of the constitutional standard established in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania et al. v. Robert P. Casey et al. (505 U.S. 833 (1992)): that such information must be “truthful” and “nonmisleading.” We find that nearly one-third of the informed consent information is medically inaccurate, that inaccurate information is concentrated primarily in the earlier weeks of pregnancy and is clustered around particular body systems. We discuss the implications of our findings for the question of the constitutionality of informed consent laws as they have been implemented in practice. |
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