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Requirements of Informed Consent Limit Autonomy?

Arthur Kaplan argues that opposing telemedicine abortion is irresponsible here. He argues that abortion providers have a right to determine the information that a patient needs with no “interference” by state legislatures. Curiously he justifies this return to a paternalistic notion of medical cares by a demand for patient autonomy. It appears he has little knowlege of the practices of many abortion clinics that assume a woman has made her decision when she enters the door of an abortion clinic and needs nothing more than a swift procedure and to be on her way. These sort of practice was documented by the South Dakota Task Force on Abortion available here.

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