House Bill 3850 – State Rep. Allen Skillicorn, Brad Halbrook, Amy Grant, Chris Miller – PRO-LIFE BILL – It has been filed with the Clerk on 6/27/19.
Synopsis As Introduced
Repeals the Reproductive Health Act. Creates the Illinois Abortion Law of 2019 containing the provisions of the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 before its repeal by Public Act 101-13, as well as provisions defining “viability” to include when, in the medical judgement of the attending physician based on the particular facts of the case before the attending physician, the unborn child has a fetal heartbeat, and defining “fetal heartbeat” as the cardiac activity or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart within the gestational sac. Creates the Partial-birth Abortion Ban Act of 2019 and the Abortion Performance Refusal Act of 2019 containing the provision so the Partial-birth Abortion Ban Act and the Abortion Performance Refusal Act before their repeal by Public Act 101-13. Amends various Acts by resorting the language that existed before the amendment of those Acts by Public Act 101-13. Effective immediately