Unborn child protection from dismemberment abortion; penalties.

Unborn child protection from dismembermentabortion; penalties. Prohibits the practice of dismembermentabortion, which is defined in the bill as meaning to, with the purposeof causing the death of an unborn child, purposely dismember a livingunborn child and extract him one piece at a time from the uterusthrough the use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors, orany other instrument that, through the convergence of two rigid levers,slice, crush, or grasp a portion of the unborn child's body to cutor rip such portion of the unborn child's body. The term does notinclude an abortion that uses suction to dismember the body of anunborn child by sucking fetal parts into a collection container,but it does include an abortion in which a dismemberment abortionis used to cause the death of an unborn child but suction is subsequentlyused to extract fetal parts after the death of the unborn child.The bill provides that a person who purposely performs a dismembermentabortion is guilty of a Class 4 felony. A cause of action is alsocreated for injunctive relief and civil damages. An exception is made when a dismemberment abortion is necessary to prevent serioushealth risk to the unborn child's mother.