Abortion coverage restriction in health benefit plan and on health insurance exchange.
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(1) As used in this section, "permitted abortion coverage" means coverage for abortion:
(a) that is necessary to avert:
(i) the death of the woman on whom the abortion is performed; or
(ii) a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman on whom the abortion is performed;
(b) of a fetus that has a defect that is documented by a physician or physicians to be uniformly diagnosable and uniformly lethal; or
(c) where the woman is pregnant as a result of:
(i) rape, as described in Section 76-5-402;
(ii) rape of a child, as described in Section 76-5-402.1; or
(iii) incest, as described in Subsection 76-5-406(2)(j) or Section 76-7-102.
(2) A person may not offer coverage for an abortion in a health benefit plan, unless the coverage is a type of permitted abortion coverage.
(3) A person may not offer a health benefit plan that provides coverage for an abortion in a health insurance exchange created under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 111 P.L. 148, unless the coverage is a type of permitted abortion coverage.