US State Regulation of Decisions for Pregnant Women Without Decisional Capacity

JAMA. 2019 Apr 23;321(16):1629-1631. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.2587.

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
² Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
³ Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
⁵ Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Department of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁷ General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic Health System, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Abstract

This study characterizes the prevalence and content of US state statutes governing treatment decisions for decisionally incapacitated pregnant women.