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The Illinois Baptist State Association filed suit in 2020, claiming the law violated their religious beliefs. Insurance coverage of abortion care protected by Illinois judge. What to know
A little more than one week after a neighboring state saw abortion restrictions go into effect, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a slate of bills expanding reproductive rights in Illinois.
Illinois’ role as a haven of abortion care in the Midwest was magnified Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a watershed decision that reverses nearly a half-century of ...
A few weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 19-year-old woman traveled from Memphis to Chicago seeking an abortion. But medical providers at a local clinic told her the ...
Abortion in Illinois is legal up to the point of fetal viability. Laws about abortion dated to the early 1800s in Illinois; the first criminal penalties related to abortion were imposed in 1827, and abortion itself became illegal in 1867. As hospitals set up barriers in the 1950s, the number of therapeutic abortions declined.
Access to abortion is essentially locked down in Illinois. Legislation approved by both houses of the General Assembly include requiring Illinois insurers to cover abortion-inducing drugs ...
Stanek ran for the Republican nomination for the Illinois House of Representatives in 2002, on an anti-abortion platform, [6] [10] but was defeated. [ 5 ] [ 11 ] Since 2003, Stanek has been a regular columnist for WorldNetDaily [ 5 ] and her analysis and opinions are frequently referenced in the context of the abortion issue.
Dr. Richard Ragsdale (September 1, 1935 1 October 23, 2004 [1]) was a physician who performed abortions in Illinois. Ragsdale opened his Northern Illinois Women's Center in 1973, after the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court case striking down laws against abortion.