Reproductive Privacy Act

The act governs reproductive health decisions, declaring reproductive privacy to be state policy and establishing a right both to obtain and to provide such services while limiting the circumstances in which the state may regulate them. It backs that framework with criminal penalties for unauthorized abortions together with enumerated defenses to prosecution, and it addresses the treatment of these services under state-provided benefits. It also shields individuals who decline to perform the procedure, defines the terms it operates on, and assigns administration of its duties to the state health agency.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.