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New York Codes, Rules and Regulations | Title 18 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES | Chapter II - Regulations of the Department of Social Services | Subchapter C - Social Services | Article 5 - Adult and Family Services | Part 463 - Family-planning Services

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Section 463.6 - Conditions for providing services

(d) A staff member of a local social services department whose cultural values, conscience or religious conviction prevents him from participating in the provision of family-planning services shall so report to the social services official or his designee who in turn shall assign another appropriate staff member to this function in his place.

Note: Definitions

[18 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 463.1]

(b) Family-planning services means social, educational, and medical services to enable individuals, in accordance with their wishes, to limit family size, space children or prevent or reduce the incidence of births out of wedlock. Not included under this definition are abortions performed either for therapeutic or nontherapeutic purposes.