informed consent
noun
: consent to surgery by a patient or to participation in a medical experiment by a subject after achieving an understanding of what is involved
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In that case, the court ruled that damages under the law accrue each and every time a person provides their biometric information without prior informed consent.
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Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
Poor women, especially poor nonwhite women, are often drug-tested during pregnancy, and sometimes during labor and delivery, without their informed consent.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 4 May 2024
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Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
Poor women, especially poor nonwhite women, are often drug-tested during pregnancy, and sometimes during labor and delivery, without their informed consent.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 4 May 2024
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informed consent
noun
in·formed consent
in-ˌfȯrmd- 
: consent to surgery by a patient or to participation in a medical experiment by a subject after achieving an understanding of what is involved
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