54.1-2980 - Article inapplicable to certain medical or surgical treatment.
§ 54.1-2980. Article inapplicable to certain medical or surgical treatment.
No provision in this article shall apply to or be construed so as to prevent,control, or regulate the medical or surgical treatment for sound therapeuticreasons of any person in this Commonwealth by a physician licensed by theBoard of Medicine, which treatment may require sexual sterilization or mayinvolve the nullification or destruction of the reproductive functions. Forthe purposes of this section the sterilization of a person whose health wouldbe endangered by a pregnancy shall be deemed a medical or surgical treatmentfor sound therapeutic reasons.
(1981, c. 454, § 54-325.15; 1988, c. 765.)