Maine
2018 Maine Revised Statutes | Title 22: Health and Welfare | Subtitle 2: Health | Part 3: Public Health | Chapter 263-B: Abortions
22 ME Rev Stat § 1591 (2018)
Immunity and employment protection
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. [1977, c. 696, § 186 (new).]
No physician,
nurse or other person, who refuses to perform or assist in the performance of an
abortion, shall, 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 he or she is affiliated or requests to be affiliated or by which he
or she is employed, nor shall such refusal constitute grounds for loss of any
privileges or immunities to which such physician, nurse or other person would
otherwise be entitled nor shall submission to an abortion or the granting of
consent therefor be a condition precedent to the receipt of any public benefits.
[1977, c. 696, § 186 (new).]
22 ME Rev Stat § 1592 (2018)
Discrimination for refusal
No person, hospital, health care facility, firm, association, corporation or
educational institution, directly or indirectly, by himself or another, shall
discriminate against any physician, nurse or other person by refusing or
withholding employment from or denying admittance, when such physician, nurse or
other person refuses to perform, or assist in the performance of an abortion,
nor shall such refusal constitute grounds for loss of any privileges or
immunities to which such physician, nurse or other person would otherwise be
entitled. [1977, c. 696, § 186 (new).]