Title 31, Chapter 20, Section 5
( 31-20-5)
When an operation shall have been performed in compliance with this
chapter, no physician duly licensed without restriction to practice
medicine and surgery in this state or other person legally
participating in the execution of this chapter shall be liable
civilly or criminally as a result of such operation or participation
therein, except in the case of negligence in the performance of such
operation. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed so as to
require compliance therewith where medical or surgical treatment for
sound therapeutic purposes, by a physician duly licensed without
restriction to practice medicine and surgery in this state, is
required of any person in this state and where such treatment, at
the same time that it serves such purposes, may involve the
nullification or destruction of reproductive functions. |