Any person, otherwise capable of consenting to medical treatment, need not obtain the consent of his spouse for his voluntary medical sterilization if such person has been abandoned by his spouse.
§ 24-9-1 NMSA 1978
Sterilization; consent of abandoning spouse unnecessary
1953 Comp., § 12-3-43, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 14, § 3; 1973, ch. 266, § 1.
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