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Informed Consent
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Drug & Device Law
The Ethics Of Genetic Research
By Bexis
This guest post was written by J.C. McElveen, of Jones Day. We thank him for the contribution: In the late 1980s, members of the Havasupai tribe, an Indian tribe that…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Carol Sanger on Mandatory Ultrasounds
Carol Sanger (Columbia Law School) has posted Seeing and Believing: Mandatory Ultrasound and the Path to a Protected Choice on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Several state legislatures now require…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
South Dakota’s “Informed Consent Law” and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
New England Journal of Medicine: South Dakota's Abortion Script Threatening the Physician-Patient Relationship, by Zita Lazzarini: Under a law that went into effect in July, physicians in South Dakota must tell…
Drug & Device Law
Holding The Line On The Duty To Warn
By Bexis
Having been in this business (defending pharmaceutical product liability) for a long time now, we’ve learned that what happens to prescribing doctors often comes back to haunt our clients. Nowhere…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Proposed South Dakota Abortion Ban Invokes Discredited “Post-Abortion Syndrome” Claim
The discredited claim that abortion causes mental trauma (see previous post) is one of the arguments being used to bolster a ballot initiative that will go before South Dakota voters…
TortsProf Blog
Vars on Med Mal Consent
Fredrick Vars (Alabama) has posted Illusory Consent: When an Incapacitated Patient Agrees to Treatment on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Medical treatment requires informed consent, which in turn requires decision making…
Cam Law
Informed consent for a complementary and alternative medicine practice
Do you have a boilerplate informed consent for your chiropractic, acupuncture, massage thearpy, hypnotherapy, energy healing, or other complementary and alternative medicine practice? Or for a medical practice that includes…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Indiana Senate Approves Misinformed Consent Bill for Abortion
Indianapolis Star: Indiana Senate OKs abortion bill:The Senate voted 39-9 today to require thatpregnant women considering an abortion be given information about thepossibility of fetal pain and when life begins.Under…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Misinformed consent bill in Indiana
We're going to see a whole lot of this in 2008, thanks to Justice Kennedy's off-topic musings in Gonzales v. Carhart.Indianapolis Star: Abortion advice bill reintroduced in Senate, by Bill…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
ABORTION COUNSELING REQUIREMENTS OFTEN VIOLATE CORE PRINCIPLES OF INFORMED CONSENT
Via the Guttmacher Institute:State-Mandated Counseling Requirements Attempt to Influence—Rather than Inform—Women’s Abortion DecisionsIn 23 states, information that doctors are required to provide to women either verbally or in writing before…