Section 34-23A-19 - Reports required of facility or physician performing abortions--Contents--Name of mother omitted--Promulgation of rules.
34-23A-19. Reports required of facility or physician performing abortions--Contents--Name of mother omitted--Promulgation of rules. Any facility or physician performing abortions in this state shall report to the state department of health as follows:
(1) Total number of abortions performed;
(2) Method of abortion used in each abortion performed;
(3) Complete pathology reports giving period of gestation of fetuses, presence of abnormality, and measurements of fetuses, if the facility where the abortion is performed is so equipped to complete such reports;
(4) Numbers of maternal deaths due directly or indirectly to abortions;
(5) Reports of all follow-up, including short- and long-term complications in the female due to abortion;
(6) Other information required by the regulations issued by the department pursuant to this section.
No report made under this section shall include the name of any female receiving an abortion.
The Department of Health may promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 to provide for the reporting of such information concerning abortion as will enable the department to provide complete reporting to the centers for disease control of the public health services in the United States Department of Health and Human Services of all abortion-related data the centers for disease control recommend be reported to them by states.
Source: SL 1973, ch 146, § 4; SL 1993, ch 251, § 1.