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Idaho Code § 18-603

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18-603 ADVERTISING MEDICINES OR OTHER MEANS FOR PREVENTING CONCEPTION, OR FACILITATING MISCARRIAGE OR ABORTION.

Official statutory text

18-603. Advertising medicines or other means for preventing conception, or facilitating miscarriage or abortion. Every person, except licensed physicians of this state and those licensed or registered health care providers hereinafter referred to acting under their direct supervision or medical order, who wilfully publishes any notice or advertisement of any medicine or means for producing or facilitating a miscarriage or abortion, or for the prevention of conception, or who offers his services by any notice, advertisement, or otherwise to assist in the accomplishment of any such purpose, is guilty of a felony. A licensed physician or licensed or registered health care provider acting at his direction or medical order may lawfully provide examinations, prescriptions, devices and informational materials regarding prevention of conception to any person requesting the same who, in the good faith judgment of the physician or such provider, is sufficiently intelligent and mature to understand the nature and significance thereof.

History:

[I.C., sec. 18-603, as added by 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 862; am. 1974, ch. 69, sec. 1, p. 1150.]

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