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  • Title: Overview.
    Author: Alan Guttmacher Institute AGI.
    Journal: State Reprod Health Monit; 1993 Feb; 4(1):i-. PubMed ID: 12344861.
    Abstract:
    The first issue of The Alan Guttmacher Institute's 1993 "State Reproductive Health Monitor: Legislative Proposals and Actions" chronicles and summarizes reproductive health-related legislation introduced and acted on in the 50 states from January 1 to February 28, 1993. Topics include abortion, family planning (FP), sex education, teenage pregnancy, infertility, maternal and infant care, and sexually transmitted diseases/AIDS. All legislatures convened sessions in 1993 except that of Kentucky, and by the end of February, only Louisiana had not yet convened and no legislature had adjourned. After the US Supreme Court reaffirmed a woman's constitutional right to abortion prior to fetal viability and added that states have broad authority to regulate abortion throughout pregnancy, so long as those regulations do not impose an "undue burden" on the right to abortion, 163 abortion-related bills were introduced in 42 states concerning counseling/waiting periods, parental involvement, legality (guarantees and bans), public funding, fetal rights/remains, clinic licensing, reporting requirements, clinic harassment, postviability abortions, sex selection, insurance coverage, comprehensive statutes, RU 486 availability, spousal notification, and conscience clauses. None of the measures has been enacted, although several have advanced or been rejected. Legislative efforts in the areas of FP, sex education, teenage pregnancy, and school-based health clinics, led to the introduction of 118 measures relating to: the availability of FP services, programs, and contraceptives (including Norplant); providing for or limiting the scope of sex education curricula in the public schools; establishing or regulating services offered by school-based health clinics; the prevention of teenage pregnancy and provision of parenting programs; and whether parental consent/notice for contraceptives is needed. No measure has yet been enacted. Infertility matters which were considered included insurance coverage, the legality of surrogate contracts/arrangements, and the licensing of fertility clinics. Maternal and infant health care issues included family/medical leave, services for prenatal care and childbirth, health care through public and private insurance, problems associated with perinatal alcohol and/or drug use, and programs directed at infant care and infant mortality.
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