2025 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 12 - Public Health
Chapter 435 - Reproductive Health Care and Rights
Section 435.215 - Right to accept or refuse services protected.
(1) An individual’s acceptance or refusal to accept reproductive health care information and services may not:
(a) Be grounds for the loss of any privilege or immunity to which the individual is otherwise entitled; or
(b) Affect the individual’s right to receive public assistance, medical assistance, as defined in ORS 414.025, or any other public benefit.
(2) An officer, employee or agent of a public body who is engaged in the provision of reproductive health care information and services:
(a) Shall advise every individual to whom the officer, employee or agent of a public body provides reproductive health care information and services, both orally and in writing, of the rights described under subsection (1) of this section;
(b) Shall recognize that the right to make decisions concerning reproductive health care is a fundamental personal right of the individual and that nothing in ORS 435.190 to 435.245, 435.475 or 435.485 or ORS chapter 436 in any way abridges that right; and
(c) May not require any individual to state the reason for accepting or refusing the offer of reproductive health care information and services. [1967 c.491 §3; 1971 c.779 §66; 1987 c.158 §81; 2013 c.688 §91; 2023 c.228 §6]
