Office of Medical Education

Contemporary Ethical Issues in Clinical Medicine - Obstetrics & Gynecology 

L3 Clerkships

6 weeks

1. Laws governing practice of OBGYN in LA
2. Sterilization
3. Systems constraints on Optimal Care – Insurance Fraud
4. Infant Born Alive
5. End of Life Pregnant Woman
6. Abortion Prohibited Law

Louisiana Laws

• Revised Statutes
  • RS 40:1061.8 - Unborn child is a human being at conception
  • RS 40:1061.5 - Counseling abortion prohibited 
  • RS 40:1061.6 Parts A & B - Abortion, use of public funds
  • RS 40:1061.13 - Abortion after viability
  • RS 40:1061.14 -Minors abortion
  • RS 40:1121.8 - Minor consent for treatment venereal disease
  • RS 40:1159.4 Part A (6) - Minor consent to medical care for child
  • RS 40:1079.1 Part A (2) - Minor consent to medication during labor or childbirth
• Civil Codes
  • CC Article 366 – Judicial Emancipation
  • CC Article 367 – Emancipation by marriage
  • CC Article 1922 – fully emancipated minor contractual capacity
• Take Louisiana Laws Quiz

Sterilization

Read Sterilization of Women: Ethical Issues and Considerations, ACOG Committee OpinionNumber 695, April 2017,  The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology 
          https://www.acog.org/-/media/project/acog/acogorg/clinical/files/committee-opinion/articles/2017/04/sterilization-of-women-ethical-issues-and-considerations.pdf

Take Sterilization Quiz

Systems Constraints on Optimal Care- Insurance Fraud

• Read Securing Diagnostic Services within System Constraints from Virtual Mentor, May 2008
  • http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2008/05/ccas3-0805.html
• Take System Contraints on Optimal Care Quiz

Infant Born Alive

• Read LRS 40:1061.12 (Infant Born Alive Protection Act)
• Take Infant Born Alive Quiz

End of Life Pregnant Woman

• Read Pregnant Woman End of Life
• Take End of Life Pregnant Woman Quiz

Abortion Prohibited Law

• Read LRS 40:1061 (2014 Abortion Prohibited Law)
• 2014 Abortion Prohibited Law Quiz