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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
The bills Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law come a little more than a week after Iowa saw abortion restrictions go into effect. ... Illinois expands abortion protections with 3 new laws. What to know.
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 ...
CHICAGO — With a week until the Nov. 5 election, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a key Democratic surrogate and potential future presidential candidate, is making a last big push to help states ...
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 ...
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 does not require a minor to notify a parent or guardian in order to obtain an abortion. [65] In 2013, the Illinois Supreme Court recognized a right to abortion in the Illinois state constitution under the due process clause. [66] [67] As of 2017, Illinois had 40 facilities that can perform abortions. [68]
A federal judge in Rockford has temporarily blocked the enforcement of a new law that allows the Illinois attorney general’s office to penalize anti-abortion pregnancy centers if they use ...