Informed Consent: Elective Abortion

Informed consent to abortion: a refinement.

Sleep deprivation, elective surgical procedures, and informed consent.

n engl j med 363;27 nejm.org december 30, 201

The Abortion Informed Consent Debate: More Light, Less Heat

ion to a baby in the eyes of the potentially aborting mother," and thereby has an emotional impact far beyond its factual impact.136 While this may be true, excessive reliance on such arguments in the context of abortion and reproductive decision-making runs the risk of supporting entrenched assumptions about women's emotional vulnerability-assumptions that critics of abortion disclosure laws e...

Informed or Misinformed Consent? Abortion Policy in the United States.

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 ri...

preoperative informed consent: is it truly informed?

background: pre-operative informed consent is an important aspect of surgery, yet there has been no formal training regarding it in pakistan. this study was done to assess the preoperative informed consent practice. methods: after taking informed permission, a questionnaire was filled in during an interview with 350 patients, who have undergone elective surgical procedures under routine practic...