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| 1 | AN ACT concerning human rights.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Reproductive Health Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 1-10 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | (775 ILCS 55/1-10)
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| 7 | Sec. 1-10. Definitions. As used in this Act: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | "Abortion" means the use of any instrument, medicine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | drug, or any other substance or device to terminate the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | pregnancy of an individual known to be pregnant with an | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | intention other than to increase the probability of a live | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | birth, to preserve the life or health of the child after live | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | birth, or to remove a dead fetus. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | "Advanced practice registered nurse" has the same meaning | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | as it does in Section 50-10 of the Nurse Practice Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | "Assisted reproductive technology" means clinical | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | fertility treatments and laboratory procedures that involve | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | the handling of human oocytes, sperm, or embryos for the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | purpose of establishing a pregnancy. "Assisted reproductive | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | technology" includes, but is not limited to, in vitro | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | fertilization, gamete intrafallopian transfer, zygote | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | intrafallopian transfer, embryo biopsy, preimplantation | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | genetic diagnosis, embryo cryopreservation, oocyte or embryo | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | donation, and gestational surrogacy. | ||||||
| 2 | "Department" means the Illinois Department of Public | ||||||
| 3 | Health. | ||||||
| 4 | "Fetal viability" means that, in the professional judgment | ||||||
| 5 | of the attending health care professional, based on the | ||||||
| 6 | particular facts of the case, there is a significant | ||||||
| 7 | likelihood of a fetus' sustained survival outside the uterus | ||||||
| 8 | without the application of extraordinary medical measures. | ||||||
| 9 | "Health care professional" means a person who is licensed | ||||||
| 10 | as a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or | ||||||
| 11 | physician assistant. | ||||||
| 12 | "Health of the patient" means all factors that are | ||||||
| 13 | relevant to the patient's health and well-being, including, | ||||||
| 14 | but not limited to, physical, emotional, psychological, and | ||||||
| 15 | familial health and age. | ||||||
| 16 | "Maternity care" means the health care provided in | ||||||
| 17 | relation to pregnancy, labor and childbirth, and the | ||||||
| 18 | postpartum period, and includes prenatal care, care during | ||||||
| 19 | labor and birthing, and postpartum care extending through | ||||||
| 20 | one-year postpartum. Maternity care shall, seek to optimize | ||||||
| 21 | positive outcomes for the patient, and be provided on the | ||||||
| 22 | basis of the physical and psychosocial needs of the patient. | ||||||
| 23 | Notwithstanding any of the above, all care shall be subject to | ||||||
| 24 | the informed and voluntary consent of the patient, or the | ||||||
| 25 | patient's legal proxy, when the patient is unable to give | ||||||
| 26 | consent. | ||||||
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| 1 | "Physician" means any person licensed to practice medicine | ||||||
| 2 | in all its branches under the Medical Practice Act of 1987. | ||||||
| 3 | "Physician assistant" has the same meaning as it does in | ||||||
| 4 | Section 4 of the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987. | ||||||
| 5 | "Pregnancy" means the human reproductive process, | ||||||
| 6 | beginning with the implantation of an embryo. | ||||||
| 7 | "Prevailing party" has the same meaning as in the Illinois | ||||||
| 8 | Civil Rights Act of 2003. | ||||||
| 9 | "Reproductive health care" means health care offered, | ||||||
| 10 | arranged, or furnished for the purpose of preventing | ||||||
| 11 | pregnancy, terminating a pregnancy, managing pregnancy loss, | ||||||
| 12 | or improving maternal health and birth outcomes. "Reproductive | ||||||
| 13 | health care" includes, but is not limited to: contraception; | ||||||
| 14 | sterilization; preconception care; assisted reproductive | ||||||
| 15 | technology; maternity care; abortion care; and counseling | ||||||
| 16 | regarding reproductive health care. | ||||||
| 17 | "State" includes any branch, department, agency, | ||||||
| 18 | instrumentality, and official or other person acting under | ||||||
| 19 | color of law of this State or a political subdivision of the | ||||||
| 20 | State, including any unit of local government (including a | ||||||
| 21 | home rule unit), school district, instrumentality, or public | ||||||
| 22 | subdivision.
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| 23 | (Source: P.A. 101-13, eff. 6-12-19.)
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