2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 311 PHYSICIANS, OSTEOPATHS, PODIATRISTS, AND RELATED MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS 311.715 Use of public funds for abortion or in-vitro fertilization prohibited -- Use of public medical facilities for in-vitro fertilization permitted -- "Public funds" defined.
311.715 Use of public funds for abortion or in-vitro fertilization prohibited -- Use
of public medical facilities for in-vitro fertilization permitted -- "Public funds" <br>defined.
No public funds shall be used for the purpose of obtaining an abortion or paying for the <br>performance of an abortion. Public medical facilities may be used for the purpose of <br>conducting research into or the performance of in-vitro fertilization as long as such <br>procedures do not result in the intentional destruction of a human embryo. For purposes <br>of this section, "public funds" means any money of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, any <br>department, agency or instrumentality thereof, or any money of any county, city, agency <br>or instrumentality thereof or any money of any other political subdivision of the <br>Commonwealth, agency or instrumentality thereof. Nothing in this section shall be <br>deemed to deprive a woman of all appropriate medical care necessary to prevent her <br>physical death. Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow public funds to pay for <br>in-vitro fertilization procedures performed on any individual patient.
Effective: July 13, 1984 <br>History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 377, sec. 9, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created
1980 Ky. Acts ch. 315, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980.
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