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 1        AN ACT concerning abortion.

 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
 5    by changing Section 6 as follows:

 6        (720 ILCS 510/6) (from Ch. 38, par. 81-26)
 7        Sec. 6.  (1) (a) Any physician who intentionally performs
 8    an abortion when, in his or her medical judgment based on the
 9    particular   facts  of  the  case  before  him,  there  is  a
10    reasonable likelihood of  sustained  survival  of  the  fetus
11    outside  the  womb, with or without artificial support, shall
12    utilize that method of abortion which, of those he  knows  to
13    be  available,  is  in  his  medical  judgment most likely to
14    preserve the life and health of the fetus.
15        (b)  The physician shall certify in writing,  on  a  form
16    prescribed  by  the  Department under Section 10 of this Act,
17    the available methods considered and the reasons for choosing
18    the method employed.
19        (c)  Any  physician  who  intentionally,  knowingly,   or
20    recklessly violates the provisions of Section 6(1)(a) commits
21    a Class 3 felony.
22        (2) (a)  No  abortion  shall be performed or induced when
23    the fetus is viable unless there is in attendance a physician
24    other than the physician performing or inducing the  abortion
25    who  shall take control of and provide immediate medical care
26    for any child born alive as a result of the  abortion.   This
27    requirement  shall not apply when, in the medical judgment of
28    the physician performing or inducing the  abortion  based  on
29    the  particular  facts of the case before him, there exists a
30    medical emergency;  in  such  a  case,  the  physician  shall
31    describe the basis of this judgment on the form prescribed by
 
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 1    Section  10  of  this  Act.   Any physician who intentionally
 2    performs or induces such an abortion and  who  intentionally,
 3    knowingly,  or recklessly fails to arrange for the attendance
 4    of such a second physician in violation  of  Section  6(2)(a)
 5    commits a Class 3 felony.
 6        (b)  Subsequent  to  the  abortion,  if  a  child is born
 7    alive, the physician required by Section  6(2)(a)  to  be  in
 8    attendance  shall  exercise  the  same degree of professional
 9    skill, care and diligence to preserve the life and health  of
10    the  child  as  would  be  required  of a physician providing
11    immediate medical care to a child born alive in the course of
12    a pregnancy termination which was not an abortion.  Any  such
13    physician   who   intentionally,   knowingly,  or  recklessly
14    violates Section 6(2)(b) commits a Class 3 felony.
15        (3)  The law of this State  shall  not  be  construed  to
16    imply that any living individual organism of the species homo
17    sapiens  who  has  been born alive is not an individual under
18    the "Criminal Code of  1961,"  approved  July  28,  1961,  as
19    amended.
20        (4) (a)  Any  physician  who  intentionally  performs  an
21    abortion   when,   in  his  medical  judgment  based  on  the
22    particular  facts  of  the  case  before  him,  there  is   a
23    reasonable  possibility  of  sustained  survival of the fetus
24    outside the womb, with or without artificial  support,  shall
25    utilize  that  method of abortion which, of those he knows to
26    be available, is in  his  medical  judgment  most  likely  to
27    preserve the life and health of the fetus.
28        (b)  The  physician  shall  certify in writing, on a form
29    prescribed by the Department under Section 10  of  this  Act,
30    the available methods considered and the reasons for choosing
31    the method employed.
32        (c)  Any   physician  who  intentionally,  knowingly,  or
33    recklessly violates the provisions of Section 6(4)(a) commits
34    a Class 3 felony.
 
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 1        (5)  Nothing in Section 6 requires a physician to  employ
 2    a  method  of  abortion which, in the medical judgment of the
 3    physician performing the abortion  based  on  the  particular
 4    facts  of the case before him, would increase medical risk to
 5    the mother.
 6        (6)  When the fetus  is  viable  and  when  there  exists
 7    reasonable  medical  certainty (a) that the particular method
 8    of abortion to be employed will cause  organic  pain  to  the
 9    fetus,  and  (b) that use of an anesthetic or analgesic would
10    abolish or alleviate organic pain to the fetus caused by  the
11    particular  method  of  abortion  to  be  employed,  then the
12    physician who is to perform the abortion or his agent or  the
13    referring  physician or his agent shall inform the woman upon
14    whom the abortion is to be performed that such an  anesthetic
15    or  analgesic  is  available, if he knows it to be available,
16    for use to abolish or alleviate organic pain  caused  to  the
17    fetus  by  the  particular method of abortion to be employed.
18    Any person who performs an abortion with knowledge  that  any
19    such  reasonable  medical  certainty  exists and that such an
20    anesthetic or analgesic is available, and intentionally fails
21    to so inform the woman or to ascertain  that  the  woman  has
22    been so informed commits a Class B misdemeanor. The foregoing
23    requirements  of  subsection (6) of Section 6 shall not apply
24    (a) when in the medical judgment of the physician who  is  to
25    perform  the  abortion  or the referring physician based upon
26    the particular facts of the case before him: (i) there exists
27    a medical emergency, or (ii) the administration  of  such  an
28    anesthetic  or  analgesic  would  decrease  a  possibility of
29    sustained survival of the fetus apart from the  body  of  the
30    mother,  with  or without artificial support, or (b) when the
31    physician who is  to  perform  the  abortion  administers  an
32    anesthetic  or  an analgesic to the woman or the fetus and he
33    knows there exists reasonable medical certainty that such use
34    will abolish organic pain caused  to  the  fetus  during  the
 
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 1    course of the abortion.
 2        (7)  No  person  shall  sell  or  experiment upon a fetus
 3    produced by the fertilization of a  human  ovum  by  a  human
 4    sperm unless such experimentation is therapeutic to the fetus
 5    thereby produced.  Intentional violation of this section is a
 6    Class  A  misdemeanor.    Nothing  in  this subsection (7) is
 7    intended  to   prohibit   the   performance   of   in   vitro
 8    fertilization.
 9        (8)  No  person  shall  intentionally perform an abortion
10    with  knowledge  that  the  pregnant  woman  is  seeking  the
11    abortion solely on account of the sex of the fetus.   Nothing
12    in   Section   6(8)  shall  be  construed  to  proscribe  the
13    performance of an abortion on account of the sex of the fetus
14    because of a genetic disorder linked to  that  sex.   If  the
15    application  of Section 6(8) to the period of pregnancy prior
16    to viability is held invalid, then such invalidity shall  not
17    affect  its application to the period of pregnancy subsequent
18    to viability.
19    (Source: P.A. 84-1001.)

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