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But, how did we get from a statute outlawing the sale of abortion-inducing drugs in 1827 to establishing reproductive freedoms within our state law that will survive the expected overturning of ...
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.
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 ...
The bill led by Rep. Dagmara Avelar, D-Bolingbrook, also grants the Illinois Department of Public Health the right to investigate hospitals for violations and could issue penalties starting at ...
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.
In some states, these numbers can be tremendously different, for example in Missouri, a state very hostile to abortion rights, the abortion rate by state of occurrence dropped from 4 in 1000 women aged 15–44 for 2017 to 0.1 for 2020, because 57% of abortion recipients went out of state in 2017, while 99% did so in 2020. [319]
Dr. Colleen McNicholas is fresh off performing two abortions when a ringing phone quickly stops her. Just the day before, 58 women had abortions at the Fairview Heights’ Planned Parenthood ...
The Jane Collective or Jane, officially known as the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, was an underground service in Chicago, Illinois affiliated with the Chicago Women's Liberation Union that operated from 1969 to 1973, a time when abortion was illegal in most of the United States.