title: Disclosure Two Ways.
abstract: This article is an initial attempt to compare the pre-abortion disclosure mandates that have proliferated in the two decades since the Court decided Planned Parenthood v. Casey with laws that, in the context of assisted reproduction and reproductive health, require specific disclosures beyond a state's baseline informed consent requirements. While some scholars have characterized pre-abortion disclosure laws as sui generis, they share some important common features with disclosure mandates in the context of oocyte donation and other reproductive health procedures. This article suggests that in critiquing pre-abortion disclosure mandates, scholars and advocates should be careful to differentiate the use of disclosure laws in general from uses where the government interest conveys a moral preference against a particular procedure.
authors.affiliation: Current Deputy City Attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office and former Executive Director of the Office's Affirmative Litigation Task Force. She earned her J.D. in 2003 from Harvard Law School.
authors.forename: Erin B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Bernstein
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D030881:Disclosure / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011247:Pregnancy; D014481:United States