Miranda Warnings for Abortion Patients? Disclosure & Confidentiality in the Era of Dobbs
In this CLE program for clinicians, ethicists, and the lawyers who advise them we will consider the legal and ethical obligations of clinicians to minimize the amount of information solicited from patients seeking abortions, in order to minimize the legal peril faced by patients, if their abortion-related treatment records are subpoenaed by prosecutors? What are the legal and ethical obligations of clinicians and the lawyers who advise them, to minimize the amount of information solicited from patients seeking abortions, in order to minimize the legal peril faced by patients, if their abortion related treatment records are subpoenaed by prosecutors? In treating patients from anti-abortion states, where access abortion is either restricted or prohibited, should clinicians be advised by their lawyers or their employers to give a version of the MIRANDA warning, ( "You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and may be used against you in a court of law") to patients before taking a medical history related to pregnancy, abortion or miscarriage? Should states that recognize the legal right to abortion revise their medical confidentiality statutes to place the protection for confidentiality for reproductive services on the same level as attorney client privilege, as New York has done for Psychologists, through CPLR section 4507? This program is eligible for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits.
In this CLE program for clinicians, ethicists, and the lawyers who advise them we will consider the legal and ethical obligations of clinicians to minimize the amount of information solicited from patients seeking abortions, in order to minimize the legal peril faced by patients, if their abortion-related treatment records are subpoenaed by prosecutors? What are the legal and ethical obligations of clinicians and the lawyers who advise them, to minimize the amount of information solicited from patients seeking abortions, in order to minimize the legal peril faced by patients, if their abortion related treatment records are subpoenaed by prosecutors? In treating patients from anti-abortion states, where access abortion is either restricted or prohibited, should clinicians be advised by their lawyers or their employers to give a version of the MIRANDA warning, ( "You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and may be used against you in a court of law") to patients before taking a medical history related to pregnancy, abortion or miscarriage? Should states that recognize the legal right to abortion revise their medical confidentiality statutes to place the protection for confidentiality for reproductive services on the same level as attorney client privilege, as New York has done for Psychologists, through CPLR section 4507? This program is eligible for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits.