Reproductive & Sexual Health Data

Detects references to reproductive and sexual-health data: pregnancy, abortion, contraception, fertility treatment, gender-affirming care and STI/HIV status. Washington's My Health My Data Act (and a wave of post-Dobbs state consumer-health-data laws) treat this as protected consumer health data. Topic-grade vocabulary detector.

Type: keyword_list
Engine: universal
Confidence: low
Confidence justification: Low by design. Reproductive-health status is detected by topic vocabulary, not a fixed format. Terms like "Plan B" or "fertility" appear in unrelated everyday prose; pair with corroborative keywords (patient, clinic, diagnosis, record) within the proximity window to raise precision.
Jurisdictions: global, us
Regulations: HIPAA, GDPR
Frameworks: ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2
Data categories: phi, health
Scope: broad
Risk rating: 7

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:abortion|pregnan(?:cy|t)|miscarriage|contracepti(?:on|ve|ves)|fertility\s+treatments?|in\s+vitro\s+fertili[sz]ation|IVF|menstrual\s+cycle|mifepristone|misoprostol|Plan\s+B|emergency\s+contraception|gender[\s-]+affirming\s+care|gender\s+reassignment|hormone\s+(?:replacement\s+)?therapy|STI\s+status|STD\s+status|HIV\s+status|reproductive\s+health|sexual\s+health|prenatal\s+care|postpartum)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

patient, clinic, diagnosis, medical record, prescription, provider, appointment, lab result

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

The policy covers reproductive health services. — Exact 65 discovery probe with reproductive-health subject matter but no clinical or person context
Patient record notes the prescription of mifepristone for the procedure. — Exact 85 probe with clinical and person-record context
The clinic confirmed the pregnancy and scheduled prenatal care follow-up. — Exact 75 probe with clinical context but no person record
Referral for gender-affirming care was added to the patient chart. — Gender-affirming care term present
Lab result shows HIV status pending confirmation from the provider. — HIV status term present

Should not match

The quarterly sales report shows revenue grew across all regions. — Unrelated business prose, no health terms
We need a backup plan before the launch deadline next week. — Near-miss prose ("plan" but not "Plan B"), no reproductive terms
The engineering team merged the new feature branch this morning. — Unrelated prose with no reproductive-health vocabulary
Plan B remains our fallback for the product launch. — Colloquial Plan B reference may surface in discovery but must not enforce
The theatre review described a pregnant pause before the final scene. — Figurative pregnant wording may surface in discovery but must not enforce

Known false positives

Generic terms like "Plan B", "fertility" or "sexual health" appear in colloquial, agricultural, or marketing prose unrelated to an identifiable person's health record. Mitigation: Require corroborative clinical keywords (patient, clinic, diagnosis, provider, record) within the proximity window; treat isolated colloquial hits as low confidence.