{"id":199995,"date":"2019-04-11T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=199995"},"modified":"2019-04-10T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T05:28:08","slug":"abortion-business-billboard-welcome-to-illinois-where-you-can-get-a-safe-legal-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-business-billboard-welcome-to-illinois-where-you-can-get-a-safe-legal-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious abortion center posts ‘safe, legal abortion’ billboard at Illinois border"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hope Clinic for Women, an abortion business, has a new billboard on the Missouri-Illinois border advertising its \u201cservices.\u201d The billboard reads, \u201cWelcome to Illinois, where you can get a safe, legal abortion.\u201d Illinois has few restrictions on elective abortion, and, if pending legislation passes<\/a>, it will have virtually none.<\/p>\n

While the abortion industry continues to market abortion as \u201csafe,\u201d there are many horrific instances of negligence, harm, and even death committed by abortion businesses in Illinois in recent years. Many abortion businesses in the state are currently not licensed. If the sweeping pro-abortion bills currently making their way through the legislature do pass, the abortion industry in Illinois will have even less accountability. Women in Illinois, Missouri, and other nearby states, may pay the price, along with their children.<\/p>\n

According to CNY Central<\/a>, the billboards can be seen from both I-55 and I-64 when entering Illinois from Missouri. The billboard was inspired by similar advertising on the Utah-Colorado border, where Utah has stronger pro-life protections in state law.<\/p>\n

About Hope Clinic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alison Drieth, media relations coordinator for Hope Clinic, explained to CNY Central<\/a>, \u201cWe’re in a similar situation here when it came to access to reproductive health care including abortion and thought it might be as equally successful on the Illinois Missouri border.\u201d And they have already been quite \u201csuccessful\u201d at marketing to out-of-state women, as Hope Clinic acknowledges that half of women seeking elective abortions at the Granite City facility are from Missouri.<\/p>\n

The eye-catching billboard is not the first time this abortion business has caught media attention. Hope Clinic made the news last year when a man peacefully protesting outside the facility was held at gun point<\/a>. Hope Clinic also received media attention following a lawsuit<\/a> by a patient who alleged that the abortionist at Hope Clinic committed an abortion on her despite the fact that she was not pregnant. Inexplicably, the radical pro-abortion legislation currently being considered<\/a> by the Illinois Legislature would remove all penalties for abortionists committing abortions on women who are not pregnant<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Safe” abortion in Illinois? Not so much.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A look at other parts of the state reveals that the abortion industry, and abortion, aren’t even close to “safe” there as the billboard claims. Recently, staff at an unlicensed abortion facility in Peoria\u00a0refused to give 911 any details<\/a> about a patient\u2019s condition because, \u201cWe\u2019re an abortion clinic, and it will be posted all over the internet.\u201d While a patient was experiencing emergency complications at the abortion facility, the staff member repeatedly refused to provide details to the 911 dispatcher.<\/p>\n

Further evidence of the lack of oversight and regulation of the abortion industry in Illinois can be seen in the case of abortionist George Backardjiev<\/a>, who was disciplined by the Texas Medical Board and took up practice in Illinois. After causing the death of a baby in Texas, Backardjiev was no longer allowed to practice medicine in the state. However, after failing to report to the Illinois Medical Board that he was under discipline in another state, Backardijiev practiced as an abortionist in Illinois, ending the lives of preborn babies every day.<\/p>\n