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IN SB0201
Bill
Status
4/24/2019
Primary Sponsor
Elizabeth Brown
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AI Summary
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Expands conscientious objection protections to nurses, physician assistants, and pharmacists, adding them to existing protections for physicians and hospital/facility employees
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Allows these healthcare providers to refuse participation in abortion procedures on ethical, moral, or religious grounds
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Adds new protection allowing covered providers to refuse to prescribe, administer, or dispense abortion-inducing drugs
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Amends Indiana Code 16-34-1-4, effective July 1, 2019
Legislative Description
Health provider ethical exemption. Includes: (1) nurses; (2) physician assistants; and (3) pharmacists; in the prohibition from being required to perform an abortion or assist or participate in procedures intended to result in an abortion if the health care provider objects to the procedures on ethical, moral, or religious grounds. (Current law applies only to physicians and employees.) Adds a prohibition on requiring certain providers to prescribe, administer, or dispense an abortion inducing drug.
Last Action
Public Law 72
4/24/2019