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Rep. Allen Skillicorn
Filed: 2/26/2019
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1882
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1882 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 2 as follows:
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| 6 | | (720 ILCS 510/2) (from Ch. 38, par. 81-22)
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| 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:
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| 11 | | (1) "Viability" means either: |
| 12 | | (A) that stage of fetal development when, in the |
| 13 | | medical
judgment of the attending physician based on the |
| 14 | | particular facts of the
case before the attending physician |
| 15 | | him, there is a reasonable likelihood of sustained survival
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| 16 | | of the fetus outside the womb, with or without
artificial |
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| 1 | | support; or |
| 2 | | (B) when, in the medical
judgment of the attending |
| 3 | | physician based on the particular facts of the
case before |
| 4 | | the attending physician, the unborn child has a fetal |
| 5 | | heartbeat.
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| 6 | | (2) "Physician" means any person licensed to practice |
| 7 | | medicine in all
its branches under the Illinois Medical |
| 8 | | Practice Act of 1987, as amended.
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| 9 | | (3) "Department" means the Department of Public Health, |
| 10 | | State of
Illinois.
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| 11 | | (4) "Abortion" means the use of any instrument, medicine, |
| 12 | | drug or any
other substance or device to terminate the |
| 13 | | pregnancy of a woman known to
be pregnant with an intention |
| 14 | | other than to increase the probability of a
live birth, to |
| 15 | | preserve the life or health of the child after live birth,
or |
| 16 | | to remove a dead fetus.
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| 17 | | (5) "Fertilization" and "conception" each mean the |
| 18 | | fertilization of
a human ovum by a human sperm, which shall be |
| 19 | | deemed to have occurred at
the time when it is known a |
| 20 | | spermatozoon has penetrated the cell membrane
of the ovum.
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| 21 | | (6) "Fetus" and "unborn child" each mean an individual
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| 22 | | organism of the species homo sapiens from fertilization until |
| 23 | | live birth.
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| 24 | | (6.5) "Fetal heartbeat" means cardiac activity or the |
| 25 | | steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart |
| 26 | | within the gestational sac. |
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| 1 | | (7) "Abortifacient" means any instrument, medicine, drug, |
| 2 | | or any
other substance or device which is known to cause fetal |
| 3 | | death when employed
in the usual and customary use for which it |
| 4 | | is manufactured, whether or
not the fetus is known to exist |
| 5 | | when such substance or device is
employed.
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| 6 | | (8) "Born alive", "live born", and "live birth", when |
| 7 | | applied to
an individual organism of the species homo sapiens,
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| 8 | | each mean he or she was completely expelled or extracted from
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| 9 | | his or her mother and after such separation breathed or showed |
| 10 | | evidence
of any of the following: beating of the heart, |
| 11 | | pulsation of the umbilical
cord, or definite movement of |
| 12 | | voluntary muscles, irrespective of the duration
of pregnancy |
| 13 | | and whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the |
| 14 | | placenta
is attached.
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| 15 | | (Source: P.A. 85-1209.)
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| 16 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 17 | | becoming law.".
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