Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2015
ISSN
0028-4793
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
For more than two decades, states have been adding to the things that physicians must say and do to obtain “informed consent” — and thereby testing the constitutional limits of states' power to regulate medical practice. In 1992, the Supreme Court upheld states' authority to require physicians to provide truthful information that might encourage a woman to reconsider her decision to have an abortion, finding that such a requirement did not place an “undue burden” on the woman.
Recommended Citation
Wendy K. Mariner & George J. Annas,
Informed Consent and the First Amendment
,
in
372
The New England Journal of Medicine
1285
(2015).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/842
Comments
From The New England Journal of Medicine, Wendy K. Mariner and George J. Annas, Informed Consent and the First Amendment, Volume 372, Page 1285 Copyright © (2015) Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.