Ensuring OB–GYN Care in Prisons Act

This bill would require the federal Bureau of Prisons to employ at least one full-time, board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist (OB-GYN) at each federal prison facility that holds female prisoners. Each female prisoner would have to see the OB-GYN within 14 days of being imprisoned. The OB-GYN would provide services such as menstrual care, contraception, cancer screenings, prenatal care, and postpartum care, and prisoners would have the right to informed consent and to refuse non-emergency care. The bill would require referrals to other specialists when medically necessary, require vacant OB-GYN positions to be filled within 42 days, and require an annual report to Congress on staffing, visits, childbirths, high-risk pregnancies, and pregnancy-related deaths.

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Sponsors

• Valerie P. Foushee Democrat sponsor
• 26 cosponsors