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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 ...
"The Sept. 4 ruling discounts the beliefs of over 150,000 Illinois Baptists, as well as all Illinoisans who hold these same sacred convictions, by requiring all insurance coverage in our state 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 ...
An 1827 Illinois law prohibited the sale of drugs that could induce abortions. [5] The law classed these medications as a "poison". [6] The 1827 law was the first in the nation to impose criminal penalties in connection with abortion before quickening. [7] Illinois passed a bill in 1867 that made abortion and attempted abortion a criminal offense.
Illinois does not require a minor to notify a parent or guardian in order to obtain an abortion. [64] In 2013, the Illinois Supreme Court recognized a right to abortion in the Illinois state constitution under the due process clause. [65] [66] As of 2017, Illinois had 40 facilities that can perform abortions. [67]
The Affordable Care Act allowed states to opt in to a program of health care expansion, which allowed more residents to qualify for Medicaid.The cost of this expansion was primarily borne by the federal government, but the percent paid by the federal government was scheduled to decrease each year, reaching 95% by 2017 and below 90% by 2021; the remainder would be assumed by the state.
CHICAGO - After then-Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bill in 2017 expanding Medicaid coverage of abortion costs, employees at the Chicago Abortion Fund were still hearing from people who were ...
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. [310]