Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 9497
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 9497
- Health care provider: means a person, partnership, or corporation, including a health care facility, that is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by law to provide professional health care services in this State to an individual during that individual's medical care, treatment, or confinement. See
- Public entity: means :
§ 9497. Abortion; restricting access prohibited
A public entity shall not:
(1) deprive a consenting individual of the choice of terminating the individual’s pregnancy;
(2) interfere with or restrict, in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information, the choice of a consenting individual to terminate the individual’s pregnancy;
(3) prohibit a health care provider, acting within the scope of the health care provider’s license, from terminating or assisting in the termination of a patient’s pregnancy; or
(4) interfere with or restrict, in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information, the choice of a health care provider acting within the scope of the health care provider’s license to terminate or assist in the termination of a patient’s pregnancy. (Added 2019, No. 47, § 2, eff. June 10, 2019.)