§ 25-6-102 — Policy, authority, and prohibitions against restrictions

Colorado § 25-6-102

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 25: Public
• Art.: Family Planning

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(1) All
medically acceptable contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information shall be
readily and practicably available to each person desirous of the same regardless of
sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, creed,
religion, disability, age, income, number of children, marital status, citizenship,
national origin, ancestry, or motive.

(2) Medical evaluation and advice is encouraged for all persons seeking any
contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information.

(3) No hospital, clinic, medical center, institution, or pharmacy shall subject
any person to any standard or requirement as a prerequisite for any contraceptive
procedures, supplies, or information, including sterilization, other than referral to a
physician.

(4) No hospital, clinic, medical center, or pharmacy licensed in this state, nor
any agency or institution of this state, nor any unit of local government shall have
any policy which interferes with either the physician-patient relationship or any
physician or patient desiring to use any medically acceptable contraceptive
procedures, supplies, or information.

(5) Contraceptive procedures, including medical procedures for permanent
sterilization, when performed by a physician on a requesting and consenting
patient, are consistent with public policy.

(6) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part 1, no unmarried person
under eighteen years of age may consent to permanent sterilization procedures
without the consent of parent or guardian.

(7) Nothing in this part 1 shall inhibit a physician from refusing to furnish any
contraceptive procedures, supplies, or information for medical reasons.

(8) Dissemination of medically acceptable contraceptive information by duly
authorized persons at schools, in state, district, and county health and welfare
departments or public health agencies, in medical facilities at institutions of higher
education, and at other agencies and instrumentalities of this state is consistent
with public policy.

(9) No private institution or physician, nor any agent or employee of such
institution or physician, shall be prohibited from refusing to provide contraceptive
procedures, supplies, and information when such refusal is based upon religious or
conscientious objection, and no such institution, employee, agent, or physician shall
be held liable for such refusal.

(10) To the extent family planning funds are available, each agency and
institution of this state and each of its political subdivisions shall provide
contraceptive procedures, supplies, and information, including permanent
sterilization procedures, to indigent persons free of charge and to other persons at
cost.

Legislative History

Source: L. 71: p. 638, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 66-32-2. L. 2008: (1) amended, p. 1603, � 30, effective May 29. L. 2010: (8) amended, (HB 10-1422), ch. 419, p. 2102, � 115, effective August 11. L. 2021: (1) amended, (HB 21-1108), ch. 156, p. 896, � 39, effective September 7.