22 Anti-Abortion Bills Currently Pending in the Illinois General Assembly (2021 Session)
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22 Anti-Abortion Bills Currently Pending In the Illinois General Assembly (2021 Session) IL HB261 – ULTRASOUND OPPORTUNITY ACT Primary Sponsor: Representative Charles Meier (R) Summary: Harassment of women, substituting medical judgement of doctors for anti-choice propaganda Creates the Ultrasound Opportunity Act. Sets forth legislative findings and definitions. IL HB338 – STATUTES BORN ALIVE INFANT Primary Sponsor: Representative Mark Batinick (R) Summary: Anti-choice propaganda, a bill in search of something that doesn’t exist Amends the Statute on Statutes. Removes language regarding interpretation of specified provisions. IL HB683 – ULTRASOUND OPPORTUNITY ACT Primary Sponsor: Representative Paul Jacobs (R) Summary: Harassment of women, substituting medical judgement of doctors for anti-choice propaganda Creates the Ultrasound Opportunity Act. Sets forth legislative findings and definitions. IL HB697 – INC TX PREGNANCY RESOURCE Primary Sponsor: Representative Adam Niemerg (R) Summary: Allows anti- choice activists to uses state income tax dollars to support anti-choice propaganda and lie to pregnant women about pregnancy and abortion Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit in an amount equal to 50% of the contributions made by the taxpayer during the taxable year to one or more qualifying “pregnancy resource centers.” IL HB783 – ABORTION VARIOUS Primary Sponsor: Representative Patrick Windhorst (R) Summary: Repeals HB 40 Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Illinois Public Aid Code, and the Problem Pregnancy Health Services and Care Act. IL HB791 – REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH 20WKS Primary Sponsor: Representative Patrick Windhorst (R) Summary: Repeals the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), bans abortion, imposes criminal penalties for doctors, eliminates life/health consequences for pregnant women Amends the Reproductive Health Act. Makes conforming changes. IL HB827 – PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN Primary Sponsor: Representative Adam Niemerg (R) Summary: “Partial Birth Abortion” doesn’t exist in any medical literature, meant to demonize women and doctors with propaganda Creates the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2021. IL HB1717 – RIGHT OF CONSCIENCE ACT Primary Sponsor: Representative Deanne M. Mazzochi (R) Summary: Allows for any refusal for any reason to provide medical care while dismissing the health and welfare of any patient Creates the Right of Conscience Act. Defines terms. Provides that no person or qualifying entity shall be coerced to act or engage in speech or held liable for refusing to engage in speech or refusing to act if such refusal was to exercise a right of conscience. 1 IL HB1893 – REPEAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACT Primary Sponsor: Representative Amy Elik (R) Summary: Repeals the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), allows the U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw abortion and the most commonly used forms of prescription birth control in Illinois Repeals the Reproductive Health Act. Creates the Illinois Abortion Law of 2021 containing the provisions of the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 before its repeal by the Reproductive Health Act (RHA). IL HB1894 – ULTRASOUND OPPORTUNITY ACT Primary Sponsor: Representative Amy Elik (R) Summary: Harassment of women, substituting medical judgement of doctors for anti-choice propaganda Creates the Ultrasound Opportunity Act. Sets forth legislative findings and definitions. IL HB2980 – ULTRASOUND OPPORTUNITY ACT Primary Sponsor: Representative Thomas Morrison (R) Summary: Harassment of women, substituting medical judgement of doctors for anti-choice propaganda Creates the Ultrasound Opportunity Act. Sets forth legislative findings and definitions. IL HB2981 – VEH CDCHOOSE LIFE DECAL Primary Sponsor: Representative Thomas Morrison (R) Summary: Uses taxpayer dollars to fund anti-choice organizations and harassment of women seeking abortion care Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Choose Life Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. IL HB3041 – DHSAUDITTAX FUNDED ABORTIONS Primary Sponsor: Representative Adam Niemerg (R) Summary: Requires state agencies to provide information so anti-choice extremists can harass and violate the privacy of patients, doctors, medical facilities and nonprofit organizations which provide medical information and care Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Auditor General to conduct a post audit of all accounts and transactions of the Department of Human Services to determine the total amount in public funds the Department has expended since January 1, 2018 (effective date of HB 40) to cover costs of elective abortions and related services. IL HB3043 – REPEAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACT Primary Sponsor: Representative Adam Niemerg (R) Summary: Repeals the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), allows the U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw abortion and the most commonly used forms of prescription birth control in Illinois Repeals the Reproductive Health Act. Creates the Illinois Abortion Law of 2021 containing the provisions of the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 before its repeal by the Reproductive Health Act (RHA). IL HB3046 – REPEAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACT Primary Sponsor: Representative Adam Niemerg (R) Summary: Repeals the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), allows the U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw abortion and the most commonly used forms of prescription birth control in Illinois Repeals the Reproductive Health Act. Creates the Illinois Abortion Law of 2021 containing the provisions of the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 before its repeal by the Reproductive Health Act (RHA). IL HB3047 – REPEAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACT Primary Sponsor: Representative Adam Niemerg (R) Summary: Repeals the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), allows the U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw abortion and the most commonly used forms of prescription birth control in Illinois Repeals the Reproductive Health Act. Creates the Illinois Abortion Law of 2021 containing the provisions of the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 before its repeal by the Reproductive Health Act (RHA). 2 IL HB3048 – IMMUNIZING AGENTSFETAL TISSUE Primary Sponsor: Representative Adam Niemerg (R) Summary: Allows anti-choice extremists to promote misinformation about vaccinations, including COVID-19 vaccines Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Public Health to create and maintain a list of each immunizing agent derived from aborted fetal tissue and any alternative immunizing agents. IL HB3049 – ULTRASOUND OPPORTUNITY ACT Primary Sponsor: Representative Adam Niemerg (R) Summary: Harassment of women, substituting medical judgement of doctors for anti-choice propaganda Creates the Ultrasound Opportunity Act. Sets forth legislative findings and definitions. IL HB3050 – INFANT BORN ALIVE PROTECTION Primary Sponsor: Representative Adam Niemerg (R) Summary: Anti-choice propaganda, a bill in search of something that doesn’t exist Amends the Statute on Statutes. Removes language regarding interpretation of specified provisions. IL HB3053 – REPEAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACT Primary Sponsor: Representative Adam Niemerg (R) Summary: Repeals the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), allows the U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw abortion and the most commonly used forms of prescription birth control in Illinois Repeals the Reproductive Health Act. Creates the Illinois Abortion Law of 2021 containing the provisions of the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 before its repeal by the Reproductive Health Act (RHA). IL SB133 – ULTRASOUND OPPORTUNITY ACT Primary Sponsor: Senator Terri Bryant (R) Summary: Harassment of women, substituting medical judgement of doctors for anti-choice propaganda Creates the Ultrasound Opportunity Act. Sets forth legislative findings and definitions. IL SB1856 – DIGNITY FOR ABORTED CHILDREN Primary Sponsor: Senator Terri Bryant (R) Summary: Harassment of doctors and women to increase the cost of an abortion in violation of the right to privacy Provides that it is unlawful for any physician, after performing an abortion in Illinois in which the patient on elects to release the human fetal tissue to the physician, to fail to provide for the final disposition of the human fetal tissue through interment or cremation, consistent with State law regarding the disposal of human remains, not later than 7 days after the date on which the abortion procedure was performed. Contains provisions specifying civil penalties, criminal designations, and consideration of action by the Medical Disciplinary Board. 3 .