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This November, Planned Parenthood is backing a slate of abortion-rights Democrats running for the Illinois House and Senate. That list primarily consists of incumbents, but also 11 challengers to ...
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 ...
In the run-up to the 2024 election, many observers — from political scientists to think tanks, from pollsters to opinion writers — believed abortion would buoy Democrats to electoral victory.
After the bill passed, Governor Pritzker was on the Illinois Senate floor, hugging and congratulating abortion-rights supporters. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] The Illinois Reproductive Health Act says that women have the "fundamental right" to access abortion services, and that a "fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights". [ 27 ]
Sure enough, every time abortion-related ballot questions shared the ballot with other races in 2022, the pro-abortion-rights side of the measure got more support than the Democratic candidate at ...
Democrats support voting rights and minority rights, including LGBT rights. [citation needed] The Republican party passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after a Democratic attempt to filibuster led by southern Democrats, which for the first time outlawed segregation. Edward Carmines and James Stimson wrote, "the Democratic Party appropriated ...
About nine in 10 Democrats say their state should allow a pregnant person to obtain a legal abortion at six weeks into the pregnancy, compared with about three-quarters of U.S. adults overall.
The positive news for Democrats: Nearly two-thirds of voters in both states believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and a slim majority say abortion will be a major factor in their ...