2025 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 12 - Public Health
Chapter 435 - Reproductive Health Care and Rights
Section 435.240 - Prohibitions relating to individual’s exercise of reproductive health rights.
(1) A public body or, except as provided in ORS 435.225, an officer, employee or agent of a public body may not:
(a) Deprive a consenting individual of the choice of exercising the individual’s reproductive health rights under ORS 435.210;
(b) Interfere with or restrict, in the regulation of benefits, facilities, services or information, the choice of a consenting individual to exercise the individual’s reproductive health rights under ORS 435.210;
(c) Prohibit a health care provider, who is acting within the scope of the health care provider’s license, from providing reproductive health care information and services to a consenting individual;
(d) Interfere with or restrict, in the regulation of benefits, facilities, services or information, the choice of a health care provider, who is acting within the scope of the health care provider’s license, to provide reproductive health care information and services to a consenting individual;
(e) Subject an individual to criminal or civil liability or penalty, or otherwise deprive the individual of any rights, based on the individual’s actions or omissions in exercising the individual’s reproductive health rights under ORS 435.210, including any action or omission affecting an actual, potential or alleged pregnancy outcome; or
(f) Subject any person to criminal or civil liability or penalty, or otherwise deprive any person of the person’s rights, based solely on the person’s actions in the provision of aid, assistance, resources or support to an individual in the exercise of the individual’s reproductive health rights, provided that the person’s actions do not otherwise violate the laws of this state.
(2)(a) Nothing in this section is intended to prevent the application of laws, rules, ordinances or taxes that affect the method or manner of sales or distribution of contraceptive devices or the provision of reproductive health care, provided that the laws, rules, ordinances or taxes are designed to promote public health and safety and do not unreasonably burden public access to contraception or other reproductive health care.
(b) Nothing in this section requires a public body to provide or pay for reproductive health care. [Formerly 659.880]
