2006 New Hampshire Statutes - Section 137-H:14 Exceptions.


    I. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to condone, authorize, or approve the withholding of life-sustaining procedures from or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end the life of a pregnant woman by an attending physician when such physician has knowledge of the woman's pregnant condition.
    II. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to condone, authorize, or approve of the arbitrary withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining procedures from mentally incompetent or developmentally disabled persons.
    III. [Repealed.]

Source. 1985, 157:1. 1991, 239:19, eff. June 10, 1991.

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