Antiabortion laws and reproductive health information in nuclear medicine

Clin Imaging. 2023 Mar:95:62-64. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2022.12.009. Epub 2023 Jan 2.

Abstract

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decision on Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned a 49-year-old federal recognition of abortion rights and drastically altered a long-established risk-benefit analysis for pregnant or potentially pregnant patients in nuclear medicine. In this current legal landscape, the collection/documentation of reproductive health information (RHI) must be reduced and, in our brief communication, we outline how to do just that.

Keywords: Abortion; Nuclear medicine; Pregnant.

MeSH terms

  • Abortion, Legal
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Nuclear Medicine*
  • Pregnancy
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Reproductive Health
  • United States