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90_HB0629
720 ILCS 510/13 from Ch. 38, par. 81-33
Amends the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975. Provides that
a physician, hospital, ambulatory surgical center, or
employee of any of these persons or entities, who invokes
his, her, or its right of conscience by refusing to perform,
permit, or participate in an abortion, shall post a notice of
the objections in the patient waiting room.
LRB9001682RCks
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 by
2 changing Section 13.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 is amended
6 by changing Section 13 as follows:
7 (720 ILCS 510/13) (from Ch. 38, par. 81-33)
8 Sec. 13. No physician, hospital, ambulatory surgical
9 center, nor employee thereof, shall be required against his,
10 her, or its conscience declared in writing to perform, permit
11 or participate in any abortion, and the failure or refusal to
12 do so shall not be the basis for any civil, criminal,
13 administrative or disciplinary action, proceeding, penalty or
14 punishment. A physician, hospital, ambulatory surgical
15 center, or employee of any of these persons or entities, who
16 invokes his, her, or its right of conscience by refusing to
17 perform, permit, or participate in an abortion, shall post a
18 notice of the objections in the patient waiting room. If any
19 request for an abortion is denied, the patient shall be
20 promptly notified.
21 (Source: P.A. 81-1078.)