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

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