GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2003
Short Title: Abortion/Extend Conscience Protection.
(Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Hilton; Barbee, Barnhart,
Capps, Culp, Frye, Gillespie, Gorman, Lewis, McGee, McHenry, Moore,
Rayfield, Sauls, Setzer, Starnes, West, K. Williams, C. Wilson, and G.
Wilson.
Referred to: Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the
House. April 9, 2003
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO EXTEND CONSCIENCE PROTECTION TO
PHARMACISTS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS WHO REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN OR
DISPENSE ABORTIFACIENTS ON MORAL GROUNDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 14-45.1(e) reads as rewritten:
"(e)Nothing in this section shall require a physician licensed to
practice medicine in North Carolina or any nurse physician, nurse,
pharmacist, or other health care provider who shall state an objection to
abortion on moral,
ethical, or religious grounds, to perform or participate in medical
procedures or prescribe or dispense drugs or devices which result in an
abortion. The refusal of such physician the physician, nurse, pharmacist, or
other health care provider to perform or participate in these medical
procedures or prescribe or dispense drugs or devices which result in an
abortion shall not be a basis for damages for such refusal, or for any
disciplinary or any other recriminatory action against such physician.the
person."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.