§ 570.17 Extradition for legally protected health activity.\n 1. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the\nfollowing meanings:\n (a) "Reproductive health care" shall mean and include all services,\ncare, or products of a medical, surgical, psychiatric, therapeutic,\ndiagnostic, mental health, behavioral health, preventative,\nrehabilitative, supportive, consultative, referral, prescribing, or\ndispensing nature relating to the human reproductive system provided in\naccordance with the constitution and the laws of this state, whether\nprovided in person or by means of telehealth or telehealth services,\nwhich includes, but is not limited to, all services, care and products\nrelating to pregnancy, assisted reproduction, contraception, miscarriage\nmanagement or abortion, including but not limited to care an individual\nprovides to themself.\n (b) "Gender-affirming care" shall mean and include any type of care\nprovided to an individual to affirm their gender identity or gender\nexpression, including but not limited to care an individual provides to\nthemself; provided that surgical interventions on minors with variations\nin their sex characteristics that are not sought and initiated by the\nindividual patient are not gender-affirming care.\n (c) "Legally protected health activity" shall mean and include the\nfollowing acts and omissions by providers, facilitators, seekers, and\nrecipients of reproductive health care and gender-affirming care, to the\nextent they are not in violation of the constitution or the laws of this\nstate:\n (i) the receipt or attempt to receive reproductive health care or\ngender-affirming care, regardless of such person's location;\n (ii) any act or omission undertaken while physically present in this\nstate to aid or encourage, or attempt to aid or encourage, any person in\nthe receipt of or attempt to receive reproductive health care or\ngender-affirming care, regardless of the location of the recipient or\nprovider of such care;\n (iii) the provision of or attempt to provide insurance coverage for\nreproductive health care or gender-affirming care, by any entity\nlocated, headquartered, or incorporated in the state, regardless of the\nlocation of the recipient or provider of such care; or\n (iv) the provision of or attempt to provide reproductive health care\nor gender-affirming care by a person duly licensed under the laws of\nthis state and physically present in this state, regardless of the\nrecipient's location.\n 2. Except as required by federal law, no demand for the extradition of\na person subject to criminal liability that is in whole or in part based\non the alleged provision or receipt of, assistance in provision or\nreceipt of, material support for, or any theory of vicarious, joint,\nseveral or conspiracy liability for any legally protected health\nactivity shall be recognized by the governor unless the executive\nauthority of the demanding state shall allege in writing that the\naccused was physically present in the demanding state at the time of the\ncommission of the alleged crime, and that thereafter such accused fled\nfrom that state.\n
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