SB710:

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; created, penalty.

Bill Summary:

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty.
Creates the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The Act prohibits
an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reasonable medical
judgment, the mother has a condition that so complicates her medical
condition as to necessitate the abortion to avert her death or to
avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment
of a major bodily function. When an abortion is not prohibited post-20
weeks' gestation, the physician or authorized nurse practitioner is
required to terminate the pregnancy in a manner that would provide
the unborn child the best opportunity to survive. The bill punishes
performance of an abortion in violation of the Act as a Class 6
felony. The bill also provides for civil remedies against a physician
or authorized nurse practitioner who performs an abortion in violation
of the Act.