TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 87

NO PUBLIC FUNDS FOR ABORTION ACT

18-8704.  Contracts for Abortion Procedures Prohibited. (1) No health care facility owned or operated by the state, a county, a city, a public health district, a public school district, or any political subdivision or agency thereof shall enter into any contract or commercial transaction with any health care provider or health care facility under the terms of which such health care provider or health care facility agrees to provide, perform, or induce an abortion, except when the life of the mother is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.

(2)  Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to:

(a)  A contract or commercial transaction that is subject to a federal law related to medicaid; or

(b)  A hospital, as defined in section 39-1301, Idaho Code.

History:

[18-8704, added 2021, ch. 334, sec. 1, p. 1016.]