(775 ILCS 55/1-5)
Sec. 1-5. Scope. This Act sets forth the fundamental rights of individuals to make autonomous decisions about one's own reproductive health, including the fundamental right to use or refuse reproductive health care. This includes the fundamental right of an individual to use or refuse contraception or sterilization, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise that right; and the fundamental right of an individual who becomes pregnant to continue the pregnancy and give birth to a child, or to have an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise that right. This Act restricts the ability of the State to deny, interfere with, or discriminate against these fundamental rights. The purposes of this Act are: (1) To establish laws and policies that protect | ||
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(2) To permit regulation of reproductive health care, | ||
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(Source: P.A. 101-13, eff. 6-12-19.) |