101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4304

 

Introduced 1/28/2020, by Rep. Allen Skillicorn

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
New Act

    Creates the Infant Born Alive Protection Act. Provides that any physician who intentionally performs an abortion when there is a reasonable likelihood or possibility of sustained survival of the fetus outside the womb shall utilize the method most likely to preserve the life and health of the fetus, and that failure to do so is a Class 3 felony. Prohibits the performance or inducement of an abortion when the fetus is viable unless there is in attendance a physician other than the physician performing or inducing the abortion who shall take control of and provide immediate medical care for any child born alive as a result of the abortion. Provides that any living individual organism of the species homo sapiens who has been born alive is legally an individual under the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a Class 3 felony is committed when a physician under specified circumstances intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly fails to exercise the same conduct to preserve the life and health of a child as would be required for a child born alive at the same gestational age. Provides that nothing in the Act requires a physician to employ a method of abortion which, in the medical judgment of the physician, would increase medical risk to the mother. Except in specified circumstances, requires specified persons to inform a woman upon whom an abortion is to be performed when an anesthetic or analgesic is available for use to abolish or alleviate organic pain caused to the fetus by the particular method of abortion to be employed and provides that failure to do so is a Class B misdemeanor. Contains other provisions.


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A BILL FOR

 

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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 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Infant
5Born Alive Protection Act.
 
6    Section 5. Method of abortion.
7    (a) Any physician who intentionally performs an abortion
8when, in his or her medical judgment based on the particular
9facts of the case before him or her, there is a reasonable
10likelihood of sustained survival of the fetus outside the womb,
11with or without artificial support, shall utilize that method
12of abortion which, of those he or she knows to be available,
13is, in his or her medical judgment, most likely to preserve the
14life and health of the fetus.
15    (b) The physician shall certify in writing, on a form
16prescribed by the Department of Public Health, the available
17methods considered and the reasons for choosing the method
18employed.
19    (c) Any physician who intentionally, knowingly, or
20recklessly violates the provisions of subsection (a) of this
21Section commits a Class 3 felony.
 
22    Section 10. Additional physician.

 

 

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1    (a) No abortion shall be performed or induced when the
2fetus is viable unless there is in attendance a physician other
3than the physician performing or inducing the abortion who
4shall take control of and provide immediate medical care for
5any child born alive as a result of the abortion. This
6requirement shall not apply when, in the medical judgment of
7the physician performing or inducing the abortion based on the
8particular facts of the case before him or her, there exists a
9medical emergency; in such a case, the physician shall describe
10the basis of this judgment on the form prescribed by the
11Department of Public Health. Any physician who intentionally
12performs or induces such an abortion and who intentionally,
13knowingly, or recklessly fails to arrange for the attendance of
14such a second physician in violation of this subsection commits
15a Class 3 felony.
16    (b) Subsequent to the abortion, if a child is born alive,
17the physician required by subsection (a) of this Section to be
18in attendance shall exercise the same degree of professional
19skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of
20the child as would be required of a physician providing
21immediate medical care to a child born alive at the same
22gestational age. Any such physician who intentionally,
23knowingly, or recklessly violates this subsection commits a
24Class 3 felony.
 
25    Section 15. Living individuals. The law of this State shall

 

 

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1not be construed to imply that any living individual organism
2of the species homo sapiens who has been born alive is not an
3individual under the Criminal Code of 2012.
 
4    Section 20. Reasonable possibility of sustained survival.
5    (a) Any physician who intentionally performs an abortion
6when, in his or her medical judgment based on the particular
7facts of the case before him or her, there is a reasonable
8possibility of sustained survival of the fetus outside the
9womb, with or without artificial support, shall utilize that
10method of abortion which, of those he or she knows to be
11available, is, in his or her medical judgment, most likely to
12preserve the life and health of the fetus.
13    (b) The physician shall certify in writing, on a form
14prescribed by the Department of Public Health, the available
15methods considered and the reasons for choosing the method
16employed.
17    (c) Any physician who intentionally, knowingly, or
18recklessly violates the provisions of subsection (a) of this
19Section commits a Class 3 felony.
 
20    Section 25. Increased medical risk to the mother. Nothing
21in this Act requires a physician to employ a method of abortion
22which, in the medical judgment of the physician performing the
23abortion based on the particular facts of the case before him
24or her, would increase medical risk to the mother.
 

 

 

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1    Section 30. Alleviating organic pain to a fetus.
2    (a) When the fetus is viable and when there exists
3reasonable medical certainty that (1) the particular method of
4abortion to be employed will cause organic pain to the fetus,
5and (2) use of an anesthetic or analgesic would abolish or
6alleviate organic pain to the fetus caused by the particular
7method of abortion to be employed, then the physician who is to
8perform the abortion or his or her agent or the referring
9physician or his or her agent shall inform the woman upon whom
10the abortion is to be performed that such an anesthetic or
11analgesic is available, if he or she knows it to be available,
12for use to abolish or alleviate organic pain caused to the
13fetus by the particular method of abortion to be employed. Any
14person who performs an abortion with knowledge that any such
15reasonable medical certainty exists and that such an anesthetic
16or analgesic is available, and intentionally fails to so inform
17the woman or to ascertain that the woman has been so informed
18commits a Class B misdemeanor.
19    (b) The requirements of this Section shall not apply in the
20following circumstances:
21        (1) when, in the medical judgment of the physician who
22    is to perform the abortion or the referring physician,
23    based upon the particular facts of the case before him or
24    her:
25            (A) there exists a medical emergency; or

 

 

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1            (B) the administration of such an anesthetic or
2        analgesic would decrease a possibility of sustained
3        survival of the fetus apart from the body of the
4        mother, with or without artificial support; or
5        (2) when the physician who is to perform the abortion
6    administers an anesthetic or an analgesic to the woman or
7    the fetus and he or she knows there exists reasonable
8    medical certainty that such use will abolish organic pain
9    caused to the fetus during the course of the abortion.
 
10    Section 35. Rules. The Department of Public Health shall
11adopt any rules necessary for the administration and
12enforcement of this Act.