Full Text of HB2891 100th General Assembly
HB2891 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2017 and 2018 HB2891 Introduced , by Rep. Brandon W. Phelps SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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720 ILCS 510/2 | from Ch. 38, par. 81-22 |
720 ILCS 510/3.2 new | |
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Amends the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975. Defines "dismemberment abortion". Provides that no person shall perform, or attempt to perform, a dismemberment abortion on an unborn child unless: (1) the dismemberment abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the pregnant woman; or (2) a continuation of the pregnancy will cause a substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman. Provides that no woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed shall be criminally or civilly liable for performing or attempting to perform a dismemberment abortion. Provides that no nurse, technician, secretary, receptionist, or other employee or agent who is not a physician, but who acts at the direction of a physician, and no pharmacist or other individual who is not a physician, but who fills a prescription or provides instruments or materials used in an abortion at the direction of or to a physician shall be criminally or civilly liable for performing or attempting to perform a dismemberment abortion.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 2 and by adding Section 3.2 as follows:
| 6 | | (720 ILCS 510/2) (from Ch. 38, par. 81-22)
| 7 | | Sec. 2.
Unless the language or context clearly indicates a | 8 | | different
meaning is intended, the following words or phrases | 9 | | for the purpose of
this Law shall be given the meaning ascribed | 10 | | to them:
| 11 | | (1) "Viability" means that stage of fetal development when, | 12 | | in the medical
judgment of the attending physician based on the | 13 | | particular facts of the
case before him, there is a reasonable | 14 | | likelihood of sustained survival
of the fetus outside the womb, | 15 | | with or without
artificial support.
| 16 | | (2) "Physician" means any person licensed to practice | 17 | | medicine in all
its branches under the Illinois Medical | 18 | | Practice Act of 1987, as amended.
| 19 | | (3) "Department" means the Department of Public Health, | 20 | | State of
Illinois.
| 21 | | (4) "Abortion" means the use of any instrument, medicine, | 22 | | drug or any
other substance or device to terminate the | 23 | | pregnancy of a woman known to
be pregnant with an intention |
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| 1 | | other than to increase the probability of a
live birth, to | 2 | | preserve the life or health of the child after live birth,
or | 3 | | to remove a dead fetus.
| 4 | | (4.1) "Dismemberment abortion" means, with the purpose of | 5 | | causing the death of an unborn child, purposely to dismember a | 6 | | living unborn child and extract him or her one piece at a time | 7 | | from the uterus through use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, | 8 | | scissors, or similar instruments that, through the convergence | 9 | | of 2 rigid levers, slice, crush, or grasp a portion of the | 10 | | unborn child's body to cut or rip it off. "Dismemberment | 11 | | abortion" does not include an abortion which uses suction to | 12 | | dismember the body of the developing unborn child by sucking | 13 | | fetal parts into a collection container. | 14 | | (5) "Fertilization" and "conception" each mean the | 15 | | fertilization of
a human ovum by a human sperm, which shall be | 16 | | deemed to have occurred at
the time when it is known a | 17 | | spermatozoon has penetrated the cell membrane
of the ovum.
| 18 | | (6) "Fetus" and "unborn child" each mean an individual
| 19 | | organism of the species homo sapiens from fertilization until | 20 | | live birth.
| 21 | | (7) "Abortifacient" means any instrument, medicine, drug, | 22 | | or any
other substance or device which is known to cause fetal | 23 | | death when employed
in the usual and customary use for which it | 24 | | is manufactured, whether or
not the fetus is known to exist | 25 | | when such substance or device is
employed.
| 26 | | (8) "Born alive", "live born", and "live birth", when |
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| 1 | | applied to
an individual organism of the species homo sapiens,
| 2 | | each mean he or she was completely expelled or extracted from
| 3 | | his or her mother and after such separation breathed or showed | 4 | | evidence
of any of the following: beating of the heart, | 5 | | pulsation of the umbilical
cord, or definite movement of | 6 | | voluntary muscles, irrespective of the duration
of pregnancy | 7 | | and whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the | 8 | | placenta
is attached.
| 9 | | (Source: P.A. 85-1209.)
| 10 | | (720 ILCS 510/3.2 new) | 11 | | Sec. 3.2. Dismemberment abortion prohibited; exceptions. | 12 | | (a) No person shall perform, or attempt to perform, a | 13 | | dismemberment abortion on an unborn child unless: | 14 | | (1) the dismemberment abortion is necessary to | 15 | | preserve the life of the pregnant woman; or | 16 | | (2) a continuation of the pregnancy will cause a | 17 | | substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a | 18 | | major bodily function of the pregnant woman. | 19 | | No condition shall be deemed to exist if it is based on a | 20 | | claim or diagnosis that the woman will engage in conduct that | 21 | | would result in her death or in substantial and irreversible | 22 | | physical impairment of a major bodily function. | 23 | | (b) No woman upon whom an abortion is performed or | 24 | | attempted to be performed shall be criminally or civilly liable | 25 | | for performing or attempting to perform a dismemberment |
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| 1 | | abortion. No nurse, technician, secretary, receptionist, or | 2 | | other employee or agent who is not a physician, but who acts at | 3 | | the direction of a physician, and no pharmacist or other | 4 | | individual who is not a physician, but who fills a prescription | 5 | | or provides instruments or materials used in an abortion at the | 6 | | direction of or to a physician shall be criminally or civilly | 7 | | liable for performing or attempting to perform a dismemberment | 8 | | abortion.
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