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: regex
Engine: universal
Confidence: low
Confidence justification: Low by design: the vocabulary is common in policy, news and figurative prose. Enforce tiers now require a populated patient identifier, and 85 also requires a clinical field and independent clinical evidence.
Jurisdictions: global, us
Regulations: HIPAA, GDPR
Frameworks: ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2
Data categories: phi, health
Scope: broad
Risk rating: 7
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

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

Antenatal clinic note Patient name: Avery Teston MRN: 5540921 DOB: 04/02/1991 Gestation: 12 weeks 3 days EDD: 18/03/2027 Dating scan confirms a singleton pregnancy; midwife follow-up booked. — Patient record with populated gestation/EDD fields and antenatal evidence (85)
Clinic letter Patient: Casey Rourke URN: 118204 Referred for contraception advice. — Patient letter naming contraception with labelled patient identifiers only (75)
Fertility treatment cycle summary Patient: Morgan Ellisdale Hospital number: H-2208147 Cycle day: 21 Embryos transferred: 1 Test result: Beta hCG 312 IU/L Embryo transfer performed under ultrasound guidance; obstetrician referral on confirmation. — Fertility treatment cycle record with patient identifiers, cycle/embryo/result fields and IVF clinical evidence (85)

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
Policy guidance: this procedure explains how reproductive health records are collected, stored and shared, who may access them and how long they are kept. Staff should read the privacy section before completing any form. It contains no details about any individual. — Policy/guidance text naming the topic without any populated record (65 discovery at most)
Antenatal booking form Patient name: ____________________ MRN: ____________________ Gestation: ____________________ EDD: ____________________ Signature: ____________ Date: __/__/____ — Blank form with unpopulated labelled fields (placeholder guard keeps it below 75)
News: the state will fund free contraception and prenatal care for low-income families, the health minister announced. — News/training prose about the topic without a populated record (65 discovery at most)

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.