New Mexico
New Mexico Statutes Unannotated
Chapter 30 Criminal Offenses
Chapter 30, Article 5 Abortion
30-5-2 Persons and institutions exempt (1994 Repl.)
This article does not require a hospital to admit any patient for the
purposes of performing an abortion, nor is any hospital required to create a
special hospital board. A person who is a member of, or associated with, the
staff of a hospital, or any employee of a hospital, in which a justified
medical termination has been authorized and who objects to the justified
medical termination on moral or religious grounds shall not be required to
participate in medical procedures which will result in the termination of
pregnancy, and the refusal of any such person to participate shall not form
the basis of any disciplinary or other recriminatory action against such
person.
History: 1953 Comp., § 40A-5-2, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 67, § 2.