and nursing schools, medical training facilities or other
institutions or locations wherein health care services are
provided to any person.
"Health care provider." An individual who may be asked or
assigned to participate in any way in a health care service,
including, but not limited to, a physician, physician assistant,
nurse, nurses' aide, medical assistant, hospital employee,
clinic employee, nursing home employee, pharmacist, pharmacy
employee, researcher, medical or nursing school faculty, student
or employee, counselor, social worker or any professional or
paraprofessional, or any other person who furnishes or assists
in the furnishing of health care services.
"Health care service." Any phase of patient medical care,
treatment or procedure relating to abortion, artificial birth
control, artificial insemination, assisted reproduction,
emergency contraception, human cloning, human embryonic stem-
cell research, fetal experimentation and sterilization and
including, but not limited to, patient referral, counseling,
therapy, testing, diagnosis, prognosis, research, instruction,
prescribing, dispensing or administering a device, drug, or
medication, surgery, or any other care or treatment rendered by
health care providers or health care institutions.
"Participate." To counsel, advise, provide, perform, assist
in, refer or admit for purposes of providing, transfer or
participate in providing, a health care service or a form of
such service.
Section 4. Freedom of conscience of health care providers.
(a) Freedom of conscience.--A health care provider has the
right not to participate, and no health care provider may be
required to participate, in a health care service that violates
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