Abortion Laws : Ohio and Federal: Birth Control

TItle X - Funding of Family Planning Programs

Requires medical personnel to discuss and offer options for emergency contraception (Plan B) with survivors of sexual assault.

Instruction in venereal disease education emphasizing abstinence.

Medicaid coverage of birth control.

Medicaid covered reproductive health services: permanent contraception/sterilization services and hysterectomy. Requires 30 day waiting period after informed consent is signed.

For medicaid beneficiaries eligible under the plan for family planning services, the plan must provide that each beneficiary is free from coercion or mental pressure and free to choose the method of family planning to be used.

Consent to tubal litigation must be given at least 30 days, but not more than 180 days, have passed between the date of informed consent and the date of the sterilization, except in the case of premature delivery or emergency abdominal surgery. An individual may consent to be sterilized at the time of a premature delivery or emergency abdominal surgery, if at least 72 hours have passed since he or she gave informed consent for the sterilization. In the case of premature delivery, the informed consent must have been given at least 30 days before the expected date of delivery.

Required consent form for tubal ligation.

Joint guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Labor (DoL), and Department of the Treasury clarifying “protections for birth control coverage under the Affordable Care Act. 7/22/22

CNN 7/13/23. It won't be available until March 2024.

Dept of Health and Human Services statement on medicaid coverage of tubal ligation 1/11/17

HHS.gov 7/13/22

ABC News 12/23/22

USA Today 3/4/22

NPR 8/29/22

NPR 7/12/22 Problems with the 30 days in advance informed consent requirement for medicaid to cover tubal ligation.

Kaiser Family Foundation

Stat 9/16/20

Article in New England Journal of Medicine (2014)