Notwithstanding any provision of law permitting valid consent for medical or surgical procedures to be given by a person or persons other than the patient, the refusal of any pregnant woman, irrespective of age or competence, to submit to an abortion shall be grounds for a physician or hospital otherwise authorized to proceed, to decline performance of an abortion and/or to submit the matter of consent to adjudication by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Idaho Code § 18-610
Refusal to consent by pregnant woman — Effect
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Hodgson v. Minnesota (1990)
Most recently applied in Hodgson v. Minnesota (June 1990)
1973, ch. 197, § 9, p. 442.
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