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1    AN ACT concerning health.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Medical Patient Rights Act is amended  by 
5adding Section 3.4 as follows:
 
6    (410 ILCS 50/3.4 new)
7    Sec. 3.4. Rights of women; pregnancy and childbirth.
8    (a) In addition to any other right provided under this Act, 
9every woman has the following rights with regard to pregnancy 
10and childbirth:
11        (1) The right to receive health care before, during, 
12    and after pregnancy and childbirth.
13        (2) The right to receive care for her and her infant 
14    that is consistent with current scientific evidence about 
15    benefits and risks.
16        (3) The right to choose a midwife or a physician as her 
17    maternity care provider.
18        (4) The right to choose her birth setting from the full 
19    range of safe options available in her community on the 
20    basis of complete, objective information about the 
21    benefits, risks, and costs of those options.
22        (5)  The right to leave her maternity caregiver and 
23    select another if she becomes dissatisfied with her care.
 
 
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1        (6) The right to receive information about the 
2    professional identity and qualifications of those involved 
3    with her care and to know when those involved are trainees.
4        (7) The right to communicate with caregivers and 
5    receive all care in privacy, which may involve excluding 
6    nonessential personnel, and to have all personal 
7    information treated according to standards of 
8    confidentiality.
9        (8) The right to receive maternity care that identifies 
10    and addresses social and behavioral factors that affect her 
11    health and that of her baby.
12        (9) The right to full and clear information about 
13    benefits, risks, and costs of the procedures, drugs, tests, 
14    and treatments offered to her and of all other reasonable 
15    options, including no intervention.
16        (10) The right to accept or refuse procedures, drugs, 
17    tests, and treatments, to have her choices honored, and to 
18    change her decision about accepting or refusing those 
19    procedures, drugs, tests, or treatment.
20        (11) The right to be informed  if her caregivers wish to 
21    enroll her or her infant in a research study, to receive 
22    full information about all known and possible benefits and 
23    risks of participation, and to decide whether to 
24    participate, free from coercion and without negative 
25    consequences.
26        (12) The right to unrestricted access to all available 
 
 
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1    records about her pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum 
2    care, and infant; to obtain a full copy of these records; 
3    and to receive help in understanding them, if necessary.
4        (13)  The right to receive maternity care that is 
5    appropriate to her cultural and religious background and to 
6    receive information in a language in which she can 
7    communicate.
8        (14) The right to  have family members and friends of 
9    her choice present during all aspects of her maternity 
10    care.
11        (15) The right to receive continuous social, 
12    emotional, and physical support during labor and birth from 
13    a caregiver who has been trained in labor support.
14        (16) the right to receive full advance information 
15    about risks and benefits of all reasonably available 
16    methods for relieving pain during labor and birth, 
17    including methods that do not require the use of drugs; to 
18    choose which methods will be used; and to change her 
19    decision about using those methods at any time.
20        (17) The right to freedom of movement during labor, 
21    unencumbered by tubes, wires, or other apparatuses and to 
22    give birth in the position of her choice.
23        (18) The right to virtually uninterrupted contact with 
24    her newborn from the moment of birth if she and her baby 
25    are healthy and do not need care that requires separation.
26        (19) The right to receive complete information about 
 
 
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1    the benefits of breastfeeding well in advance of labor, to 
2    refuse supplemental bottles and other actions that 
3    interfere with breastfeeding, and to have access to skilled 
4    lactation support for as long as she chooses to breastfeed.
5        (20) The right to decide collaboratively with 
6    caregivers when she and her baby will leave the birth site 
7    for home, based on their conditions and circumstances.
8        (21) The right to be treated with respect at all times 
9    before, during, and after pregnancy by her health care 
10    professionals and to have a health care professional that 
11    is culturally competent and treats her appropriately 
12    regardless of her ethnicity, sexual orientation, or 
13    religious background.
14    (b) The Department of Public Health, Department of 
15Healthcare and Family Services, Department of Children and 
16Family Services, and Department of Human Services shall post 
17information about these rights on their publicly available 
18websites. Every health care provider, day care center licensed 
19under the Child Care Act of 1969, Head Start, and community 
20center shall post information about these rights in a prominent 
21place and on their websites, if applicable.
22    (c) The Department of Public Health shall adopt rules to 
23implement this Section.
  
 
24    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
25becoming law.