TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 87

NO PUBLIC FUNDS FOR ABORTION ACT

18-8707.  Abortion-Related Activities Prohibited in School-Based Health Clinics. (1) No facility operated at a public institution of higher education or operated by a public school district shall provide any of the following services to any person:

(a)  Providing or performing an abortion;

(b)  Counseling in favor of abortion;

(c)  Referring for abortion; or

(d)  Dispensing a drug classified as emergency contraception by the food and drug administration (FDA), except in the case of rape as defined in section 18-6101, Idaho Code.

(2)  No employee of a public institution of higher education or a public school, acting within the scope of such person’s employment, shall provide any of the following services to any person:

(a)  Providing or performing an abortion;

(b)  Counseling in favor of abortion;

(c)  Referring for abortion; or

(d)  Dispensing a drug classified as emergency contraception by the FDA, except in the case of rape as defined in section 18-6101, Idaho Code.

(3)  The state department of education, state board of education, or other state agencies and local units of administration are prohibited from using state funds to provide or procure an abortion or distribute drugs classified as emergency contraception by the FDA, except in the case of rape as defined in section 18-6101, Idaho Code.

History:

[18-8707, added 2021, ch. 334, sec. 1, p. 1017.]