94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1012

 

Introduced 02/03/05, by Rep. Rosemary Mulligan - Sara Feigenholtz

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 510/1   from Ch. 38, par. 81-21

    Amends the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legislative intent.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 is amended by
5 changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6     (720 ILCS 510/1)  (from Ch. 38, par. 81-21)
7     Sec. 1. It is the the intention of the General Assembly of
8 the State of Illinois to reasonably regulate abortion in
9 conformance with the decisions of the United States Supreme
10 Court of January 22, 1973. Without in any way restricting the
11 right of privacy of a woman or the right of a woman to an
12 abortion under those decisions, the General Assembly of the
13 State of Illinois do solemnly declare and find in reaffirmation
14 of the longstanding policy of this State, that the unborn child
15 is a human being from the time of conception and is, therefore,
16 a legal person for purposes of the unborn child's right to life
17 and is entitled to the right to life from conception under the
18 laws and Constitution of this State. Further, the General
19 Assembly finds and declares that longstanding policy of this
20 State to protect the right to life of the unborn child from
21 conception by prohibiting abortion unless necessary to
22 preserve the life of the mother is impermissible only because
23 of the decisions of the United States Supreme Court and that,
24 therefore, if those decisions of the United States Supreme
25 Court are ever reversed or modified or the United States
26 Constitution is amended to allow protection of the unborn then
27 the former policy of this State to prohibit abortions unless
28 necessary for the preservation of the mother's life shall be
29 reinstated.
30     It is the further intention of the General Assembly to
31 assure and protect the woman's health and the integrity of the
32 woman's decision whether or not to continue to bear a child, to

 

 

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1 protect the valid and compelling state interest in the infant
2 and unborn child, to assure the integrity of marital and
3 familial relations and the rights and interests of persons who
4 participate in such relations, and to gather data for
5 establishing criteria for medical decisions. The General
6 Assembly finds as fact, upon hearings and public disclosures,
7 that these rights and interests are not secure in the economic
8 and social context in which abortion is presently performed.
9 (Source: P.A. 81-1078.)