Title: Section 756.4 - Health care practitioner services

756.4 Health care practitioner services

The operator shall ensure that:

(a) a health care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized under title eight of the education law, acting within such practitioner’s lawful scope of practice, performs the abortion​; and

(b) an abortion is performed only when, according to the practitioner’s reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on the facts of the patient’s case, the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.