2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 8 - Family Planning
Section 24-8-4 - Prohibition against interference with medical judgment of certain health care professionals.
The Family Planning Act does not prohibit or inhibit any person from refusing to provide any family planning service on the grounds that there are valid medical reasons for the refusal and that those reasons are based upon the judgment of a physician or a physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse or certified nurse-midwife working within that person's scope of practice given in the specific case of the person for whom services are refused.
History: 1953 Comp., § 12-30-4, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 107, § 4; 2015, ch. 116, § 9.
The 2015 amendment, effective June 19, 2015, amended the Family Planning Act provision, relating to the prohibition against interference with medical judgment, by including other health care professionals with each reference to "physician"; in the catchline, after "judgment of", deleted "physicians" and added "certain health care professionals"; and in the middle of the section, after "judgment of a physician", added "or a physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse or certified nurse-midwife working within that person's scope of practice".
Temporary provisions. — Laws 2015, ch. 116, § 16 provided that by January 1, 2016, every cabinet secretary, agency head and head of a political subdivision of the state shall update rules requiring an examination by, a certificate from or a statement of a licensed physician to also accept such examination, certificate or statement from an advanced practice registered nurse, certified nurse-midwife or physician assistant working within that person's scope of practice.
