Prohibition on Coverage for Abortion; Exceptions

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Sec. 4. A qualified health plan offered under Subtitle D of Title 1 of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may not provide coverage for abortion, except in the following cases:

(1) The pregnant woman became pregnant through an act of rape or incest.

(2) An abortion is necessary to avert the pregnant woman's death or a substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman.

As added by P.L.193-2011, SEC.16.


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