5.990 Protecting NYS Practitioners Delivering Contraception and Abortion Care MSSNY will support measures to protect practitioners licensed and residing in New York from legal or personal liability when delivering healthcare services to residents of New York State or any other state, whether in person or via telemedicine, when the services provided comply with New
5.989 Ensuring Access to Reproductive Health Services Medications The Medical Society of the State of New York will advocate and support the continuation of the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to determine whether drugs are safe and effective. The Medical Society of the State of New York will support legal efforts to ensure that mifepristone
5.999 Family Planning for Persons on Public Welfare Assistance: Sunset HOD 2013
5.998 Contraceptive Sales: MSSNY supports efforts to liberalize the sale of contraceptives in New York State by the removing of age restrictions and the limitation of sales to pharmacies. (Council 12/2/72; Modified and Reaffirmed HOD 2013)
5.997 Abortion: Abortion is a medical procedure and should be performed only by a duly licensed physician in conformance with standards of good medical practice. Neither physician, hospital, nor hospital personnel shall be required to perform an act violative of good medical judgment or personally held moral principles. In these circumstances
5.996 Freedom of Choice: It is the position of MSSNY that reproductive choice, as any medical decision, is one of an informed consent between the patient and his/her physician. (HOD 1989-27; Reaffirmed HOD 2013; reaffirmed HOD 2023)
5.995 Contraceptive Prescription Drugs, Insurance Coverage for Payment of: Sunset HOD 2011
5.994 Infertility: MSSNY recognizes that infertility is a disease of the reproductive system that impairs one of the body’s most basic functions, the conception of children, and supports the requirement for insurance coverage for infertility treatments. (HOD 2000-91; Reaffirmed HOD 2002-152; Modified and reaffirmed HOD 2013; reaffirmed HOD 2023)
5.993 Unintended Pregnancies: Individuals with an unintended pregnancy are less likely to seek early prenatal care and could expose the fetus to harmful substances such as tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs. Harmful exposure and the lack of early prenatal care can lead to low birth weight newborns due to premature birth and/or growth retardation
5.992 Sale of Emergency Contraception Medicine Over-the-Counter: MSSNY encourages physicians and other health professionals to play a more active role in providing education about emergency contraception, including access and informed consent issues, by discussing it as part of routine family planning and contraceptive counseling. MSSNY supports access to emergency contraception, including making emergency contraception
