Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1591 – Immunity and employment protection
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1591
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
No physician, nurse or other person who refuses to perform or assist in the performance of an abortion, and no hospital or health care facility that refuses to permit the performance of an abortion upon its premises, shall be liable to any person, firm, association or corporation for damages allegedly arising from the refusal, nor shall such refusal constitute a basis for any civil liability to any physician, nurse or other person, hospital or health care facility nor a basis for any disciplinary or other recriminatory action against them or any of them by the State or any person. [PL 1977, c. 696, §186 (NEW).]
A physician, nurse or other person who refuses to perform or assist in the performance of an abortion may not, because of that refusal, be dismissed, suspended, demoted or otherwise prejudiced or damaged by a hospital, health care facility, firm, association, professional association, corporation or educational institution with which the physician, nurse or other person is affiliated or requests to be affiliated or by which the physician, nurse or other person is employed, nor may that refusal constitute grounds for loss of any privileges or immunities to which the physician, nurse or other person would otherwise be entitled, nor may submission to an abortion or the granting of consent therefor be a condition precedent to the receipt of any public benefits. [RR 2021, c. 2, Pt. B, §95 (COR).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1977, c. 696, §186 (NEW). RR 2021, c. 2, Pt. B, §95 (COR).