UT Southwestern's Ethics Grand Rounds: The Ethics of Access: Obstetric Emergency Care and Reproductive Counseling after Dobbs

Speaker: Katie L. Watson, J.D.

Professor of Medical Education, Medical Social Sciences, and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Faculty of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Graduate Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Abstract: In states that have criminalized abortion provision, much of the healthcare conversation has focused on what care is, and is not, legal. This lecture will begin with a short update on the legal landscape for obstetric care in the U.S. and Texas, and then it will shift focus to an ethical analysis of the unique combination of patient need plus legal uncertainty and risk clinicians now confront. What are the ethical obligations of institutions and individual clinicians caring for pregnant patients in restrictive states, and have any new opportunities for ethical care arisen since these laws were first enacted?

CME

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ (including medical ethics and/or professional responsibility).

NCPD 

UT Southwestern Medical Center is accredited as a provider of nursing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This activity has been awarded 1.0 credit hour.

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